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Christmas Math Center Activities 2014

I love Christmas.  I love it even more now that I have kids of my own.  I love seeing their faces light up on Christmas morning.  But one of my favorite things I get to do now is going into my children’s classrooms the last day before their Christmas break to do some Christmas Math […]

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Teachers Pay Teachers Freebies

I don’t know if all of you know about Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT), but I learned of the site about a year ago.  Teachers share documents they have created for use in their classroom, some are for free but some are for sale.  I contribute files to the site (some free, some for sale) as […]

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Thanksgiving Math Read-A-Loud

Counting books are a quick fun way to bring reading and math together.  This month’s Math Read-A-Loud is a quick read and can be done when you have a few spare minutes before your next activity.  Five Silly Turkeys counts down from five as the turkeys do silly things that make them disappear from the […]

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Subitizing for Princesses

Math is (unfortunately) commonly known as a boy thing.  With only one wonderful girl in my house (she has 3 brothers), I have vowed to make math a “princess thing.”  One activity I made especially for my princess are these wonderful Princess Subitizing Cards.  Subitizing is basically the ability to  instantly recognize how many in […]

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Christmas Math Centers

As I stated in my December Read Aloud post, I get to spend time in my son’s kindergarten classroom doing math centers.  Here is what we did in the Christmas Math Centers: Memory using Snowmen Subitizing Cards.  I used this set of subitizing cards and set it up with 20 cards (10 sets of matches).  […]

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Easter Egg Math Activities

I am a firm believer in doing math activities that make kids feel like they aren’t doing math at all.  So, seeing all the cute ways teachers are using easter eggs to help kids with literacy and math got me inspired to create some math eggs of my own for my daughter’s Preschool and my […]

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What the Heck is a Rekenrek??

I am preparing for my presentation at the annual US Math Recovery conference and thought it would be a great time to post about one of my favorite math manipulatives for PreK through 2nd grade; the Rekenrek…which just so happens to be the focus of my presentation at the conference next week.  To start, here […]

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