To my friends in Campbell River…
Tonight we spoke about developing number sense in elementary – a series of tasks and games that can help children to make connections between important mathematical ideas.
When we foster number sense, we are looking at:
counting up and back
estimation 
comparing and ordering
developing referents
developing ten-structured thinking
Each one is an important precursor to the operations – and can help students to fill in the gaps in their learning around quantities and the relationships between them.
So – as promised, here are the number sense games and tasks that we played or talked about tonight. They make up the purposeful practice aspect of a balanced numeracy program! Click on each link to download the instructions and/or line masters needed to play the games. Enjoy – and feel free to share with your friends! See you in November….
Carole
Number sense tasks and games:
build-the-biggest-number
compare-and-order-dot-cards
more-or-less
number-sort-primary
split-it
ten-and-ones
whats-my-number-1
whats-my-number-2
number-3-ways-five-frame
number-3-ways
take-a-handful
Hello, we are doing singapore math in our school for the first time this year. I have been doing a lot with the tens frames and also the use of dice. I really enjoy and have found your website to be a wonderful resource. Where do you do your workshops? I would love to attend one.
I am being observed on Wednesday and I wanted to do something with the tens frame model. Do you have any suggestions? I liked the number 3 ways five frame and also the number 3 ways. Do you make your own dice for these? Any suggestions would be wonderful. If you know of any other sights for printables such as yours I would love the resource. Thanks so very much. donna