Talk about quick and easy and adaptable!
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Hint! Adapt the number of cards to the ability of your students.
How Many?
The teacher claps, snaps, or stomps a set. Children listen and then hold up the correct number.
*Show me how many toes you have? How many thumbs at your table? Show me how many days in the week?
*Make a set with felt pieces on the flannel board. Show me how many.
Mystery Number
I’m thinking of a number between 4 and 6. Show me. I’m thinking of a number two more than seven. Show me.
Math Facts
4 plus 2. Show me.
9 minus 3. Show me.
Number Stories
I had four pennies. I found three more. Show me how many I have in all.
*Let children make up math stories for their friends.
Fact Families
Call out numbers in a fact family. Can children write the equations in that fact family?
Number Bonds
How many ways can you make seven?
Base Ten
Put 3 in the tens spot and two in the ones spot. What’s the number?
Odd and Even
Sort the odd and even numbers.
Slap Happy Math
Children get a partner and place one set of show me cards on the floor between them. The teacher calls out different math problems. The first child to slap the correct numeral gets a point.
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Hint! Put a line on the bottom of each card to help the children identify the direction they should go.