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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Simple Math Centers

On Friday we had Math centers. I wasn't sure if the kiddos could handle it, but they did wonderfully. I had 5 centers that they rotated through.


Students need to match the number, the number word and the picture representation. I got this at Walmart a few years ago. It's simple but an important skill (number/word recognition)

The kids liked this one! The only thing they "had to do\' was make patterns, then they could connect their patterns to make a long "snake".

In this center the students are given a hundred chart, a die, and a crayon. They roll the die, colour in that amount of boxes, and then roll again adding that number to their hundred chart. The first one to reach one hundred wins!
In this center the students use pattern blocks to create animals (there are cards with patterns on them).

The last center is a domino game that is like the card game "war". Students turn the dominoes upside down, and then each player flips one domino over. The player with the largest amount of pips wins all the dominoes in that round. The person with the most dominoes at the end of the rotation time wins. If there is a tie, those students flip over another domino and then whoever has the largest number wins all the dominoes.  

I was so happy with how well they handled centers and I am sure that we will be doing a lot more of them this year! 

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