Math Centers Kindergarten | COMPARING NUMBERS Activities | Greater Than Less

Description

Looking for a NEW way to engage your students in learning math? Creating an Addition Math Cafe or Math “Salad Bar” is an engaging way to hit target skills, ignite the students learning, and free you up to monitor learning or remediate. You can use these Comparing Numbers “recipe” cards as task cards, set up a math cafe in your room for easy clean up, or just use the printables in small or whole group.

Focus: COMPARING NUMBERS for Kindergarten

What’s Included

• Page 1: Cover
• Page 2: Table of Contents
• Page 3: Standards
• Page 4: Suggested Math Instruction Block
• Pages 5-8: Unit 11 Comparing Numbers Suggestions, and Links
• Page 9: Materials List Needed for Activities
• Pages 10-14: Task Cards (“Recipe Cards”) 1 Blank, 1 Teacher Station, 1 Computer Station, 1 ipad Station and the first Pin IT! card to go with pgs. 15-17
• Pages 15-17: Pin It Cards (Students use a clothes pin to identify the correct symbol)
• Pages 18-19: CARD GAME (Task Cards, Worksheet *need a deck of cards – numbers only)
• Pages 20-22: Roll and Build It (Task Cards, Printables *need dice and cubes)
• Pages 23-28: Write the Room (Task Cards, Recording Sheet, Words to put around the room)
• Pages 29-30: Scavenger Hunt (More Than – Task Cards, Addition Printables)
• Pages 31-32: Scavenger Hunt (Less Than – Task Cards, Addition Printables)
• Pages 33-34: Dab IT – Numbers to 10 (*need paint daubers)
• Pages 35-36: Compare Amounts
• Pages 37-39: Solve It! (Task cards & printables)
• Pages 40-42: Where Does It Go? (Less Than, Greater Than 5)
• Pages 43-45: Bigger or Smaller? (Ten Frames)
• Pages 46-50: FLIP IT! (Task Cards, Worksheets, Number Cards)
• Pages 51-54: Clip the Symbol – Cards and Recording Sheet
• Pages 55-56: Fill It! (task cards, printable)
• Pages 57-60: Tower Building with Cubes
• Pages 61-64: Clip It – Comparing Numbers to 20
• Pages 65-67: Solve IT Up to 20 (Worksheet and Number Cards)
• Pages 68-69: DAB IT! (Numbers to 20)
• Pages 70-72: Comparing Numbers Assessment
• Page 73: Recording Sheet
• Pages 74-76: Love Bug Compare Numbers CRAFT (BONUS)
• Page 77: Alligator Chomp Craft
• Pages 78-83: Vocabulary Posters
• Pages 84-92: Rules, Signs for Set Up
• Pages 93-104: PHOTOS of Set Up
• Page 105: Credits

Materials Needed

• Bingo Daubers (or crayons)
• Pencils
• Dry Erase Markers
• Scissors
• Clipboards
• Clothes pins or paperclips
• Colored Cubes
• Dice
• Game Cards (remove the Ace, Jack, Queen, and King)
• Glue sticks
• iPads and computers (optional)

What is a Math Café?

I like to keep all of my math manipulatives in one place, and hold students responsible for cleaning up after their activity. You can make your Math Café (or Buffet or Salad Bar) out of a bookcase or a rolling cart. A student pulls out the manipulative cart (Café). Students choose a recipe card (task card – with the material list, number of people who can participate in the math activity, picture cues, and directions), choose their partners if required, fill their tray with materials, do the activity anywhere in the room, and easily clean up by using a tray to hold their materials. You float around and take notes. One task card is labeled “Teacher’s Group.” This can be used when you see a student needs extra help with a concept. They will sit with you to review the concept, if you give them the card. There are also iPad, computer and blank recipe cards.

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