A Little Gift from Me: Ten Frame Cards

This set of 25 full page 10-Frame Cards can be used for Teacher Demonstration purposes when working on the development of the landmark numbers of five, ten, and twenty.  They can be used to support addition strategies, place value, and understanding the "teens".
To obtain your own set, feel free to download it from my Google Documents site by clicking HERE.
Deborah Devine

Even and Odd

Why do many teachers only teach examples of even and odd numbers, and not properties of even and odd numbers?

What do I mean?  Well, this is what I discussed with a 1st Grade Student when the only thing she could tell me about even and odd numbers was:
Even is 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10
Odd is 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9
And that's all....

First, we built models of the numbers 1 through 10

Then I asked her 2 separate the models into 2 groups that were alike in some way.

This is how she separated the models.  When I asked her what she noticed about the two groups, and she noted this on the models:

"This group doesn't have a partner for each part of the number

and this group does have a partner.  See, how I circled the partners."

Then we discussed how certain numbers can be divided into groups of two, and that we call those numbers Even Numbers.

We went on to talk about odd numbers too.  Since she is in a dual language class, she also wanted to write the Spanish word for even/par and odd/impar on the model.

Next, I asked her to now tell me what she knows about even and odd numbers and she wrote this:

I found it interesting that she put an arrow after the numbers and said "and on and on."  (That put a smile on my face.)

So we talked about how you look at the "on and on numbers" in the ones place to see if they are even numbers or odd numbers. 

I evaluated her knowledge by quickly using a set of teen number cards.

and asked her to classify them as even or odd numbers. 

She was correct, and we even checked our first answer to
 prove that she was correct.

Deborah

 

Five Frame Cards

Today I'm sharing a set of five frame cards with you.
I made them for our summer school program with the "almost Kindergartners." As I made them, I was trying to think about how the teachers could cut them out the easiest.

Click here to download the five frame cards.

This is one of the activities that we will do with the students that will utilize the cards.

Five Frame Show    (Materials: large five frame cards)

Show a five frame card to your students and ask them to identify how many dots they see. To challenge students ask them to identify one more or one less than the amount of dots. To extend, have them tell you how many empty spaces there are or how many more are needed to make 5.


Deborah Devine

Adapted Base Ten Blocks Student Kit and 10 Frame

Today I was making these Adapted Base Ten Blocks Kits for a resource room in one of our elementary schools. I thought I would share them with you.
 In the zippered pouch that I bought at "Five and Below" for $1.50, I placed the numbered ten "long" and 20 unit blocks. In the second zippered area, I placed two  numbered 100 blocks with the written portion reading  "10 through 100" by 10's and 10 more longs.

I think these kits will help the teachers in that school utilize the base ten blocks more since they are organized so that they can be handed out to students easier, and the adaptations written on each block will help the students understand that a 100 is made of 10 ten's; and 10 is made of 10 units. I can visualize students using the blocks to practice counting from 1 to 10 or 10-100 by tens. 

So though I don't have a worksheet for you to download, I FREELY share my idea. Now you can print this picture to show your parent helper how you want the materials labeled.

Pouch labled: #5 Adapted Base 10 Blocks



As I was working on my project, my 3 years old granddaughter was busy making a very big circle with Teddy Bear Counters. She started by making a 2 color pattern, but got lost in the glory of creating a big, big, big circle.

This creative environment lead to this idea:

This is a 10 frame sequence drawn on the front and back of a 100's base 10 block.
 I am planning a 20 day Kindergarten Summer School program for students in our district that; 1) are at risk, and 2) have never attended pre school.  I want to use 10 frames to assist them in learning about numbers. I can visualize a very active "Calendar Time" that does alot of singing and choral counting.  These "COUNTING BLOCKS" could be handed out each day to assist the students, and to help them make a visual picture of the numbers value while they are particpating in the choral counting. They will also assist the student as they compare the value of numbers from 1-5. If a child is ready to discuss 6-10...all they do is turn them over to the other side.  No cutting out...no laminating...and teachers will actually use those base 10 blocks that are put away in a closet.

What do you think about this idea?

Deborah Devine

Annie's Bunnies Love to Add and Subtract on a Grass-lined 10 Frame

I made it so much better!  AND....it's all based on the Common Core Mathematical Standards for Operations and Algebraic Thinking.

5 pages of Situational Problems Based on the Common Core

Click here to link to my Teachers Pay Teachers store where you can download a FREE copy.

Deborah Devine

P.S. It's so darn cute!

Annie's Bunnies Love to "ADD TO" on the Grass-lined Ten Frame

Here's a fun way to get your students adding sums up to 5 with Annie's Bunnies and the grass-lined ten frame that I created for you. 

I placed two ten-frames on a page so you could cut them apart and save paper. They would be darling printed in color and laminated for the students to use each day during Daily Calendar Time. I also created a set of problems that follow a format suggested by the Common  Core Standards, and can be used with the ten frame.

 One problem could be acted out each day. There is also a writing page that could be used for the students to create their own story.

So...

Click here and go to my Teachers Pay Teachers store for a FREE Download.

Deborah Devine

Ten-Frame Demonstration Cards

This set of 25 full page 10-Frame Cards can be used for Teacher Demonstration purposes when working on the development of the landmark numbers of five, ten, and twenty.  They can be used to support addition strategies, place value, and understanding the "teens".
To obtain your own set, feel free to download it from my Google Documents site by clicking HERE.
Deborah Devine