I was cleaning up the Estimation Table at my last Family Math Night event when I noticed a slip of paper next to the Hershey’s jar. Taking a closer look at it, I realized I was looking at the thinking behind someone’s guess as to the number of Hersheys in the jar. This piece of paper is priceless to me as an educator. It allows me to clearly understand the steps this child took to arrive at his/her answer – an answer…
Back in the early 2000s, my husband and I joined forces, he as a software engineer and me as a teacher, to design a kids savings and money management software program. We called it KidsSave. In that program we included a fun way to teach kids basic money skills. It was such a powerful tool that we decided to include it for free on our kids and money website. One of my favorite features of the KidsSave Money Counter is…
I recently had a conversation with a friend about different ways to get her second graders to learn their addition and subtraction facts. She was looking for alternatives to flashcards. So I shared with her something I do with K-2 students called subitizing. Subitizing is being able to quickly recognize the number of objects in a small set without needing to count any of the objects. Think about rolling a die. When that die settles, a quick glance tells you…
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Subitizing is being able to quickly recognize how many objects are in a small set without having to count the objects. In this short video I show how to use dot cards, dice, 10-frames, and dominoes in developing number sense skills so important for success in mathematics. .