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Good Questions for Kindergarten & Grade 1

By mindfull on March 19, 2022 | 2 Comments

Lessons and Open-ended Tasks for Building Number Sense: A New Resource by Carole Fullerton

Good questions engage students in important mathematics. They inspire and propel students in their learning, offering an entry point for all. What better response could there be for our delightfully diverse early primary classrooms?

This new combined grades resource is built around good questions, drawn from each of the strands in the Kindergarten and Grade 1 curricula. Lessons feature sorting and patterning, shape and measurement and number sense (subitizing, counting, estimating and the operations) in an accessible format for teachers of early primary.

At the end of each set of lesson sequences, a collection of more than 200 open-ended tasks is presented to allow for building, exploration, practice and extension, meeting the needs of all learners.

Have fun! Get inspired! Keep them thinking!

Check it out on the online store…

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Dot patterns and ten frames – Around the World for K/1/2

By mindfull on November 15, 2010 | 3 Comments

I thought I would post a copy of a game that I created (which I KNOW someone else out there has likely done before me!) to support young children in recognizing sets of number at a a glance. We all know how important this skill is in promoting number sense in young learners! In this game called “I have… Who Has…?” for grades 1 and 2, students start with a card (or more than one, if there are enough cards to go around!). Choose any child you like to begin the cycle. She reads from her card, from left to right, saying the number represented in the picture (“I have 14.”) and then asking the question (“Who has seven?”). Students listen for their number, then ask their question until all students have had a chance to read. The game is over when the first person to read, reads again. Be sure and hand out ALL the cards, or the cycle won’t work… 🙂

I have created a Kindergarten version of the “I have… Who has…?” game as well. The numbers go only to 10, and there are picture of fingers to help them “read” the number word. A small group – or partners – works best for this one, since there are only ten cards!