Smartboard Lessons - Tens-Frames for Building Math Number Sense K-1

Here is your next set of Smart board lessons created from:  “Number Talks Helping Children Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies. These lessons include fluency number talks using Five- and Ten-Frames.

These 66 daily tens-frame lessons provide multiple opportunities for your students to work with and visualize numbers in a variety of combinations. These lessons are designed to be presented sequentially allowing students to apply the strategies learned from previous problems. The focus of the number lessons 3 to 9 centers around asking students “How many dots do you see?" and; "How do you see them?" The last number talk lesson for the number 10 switches the number talk focus to “How many more to make ten?”

All Smart board lessons provide a lesson plan to facilitate direct instruction and follow-up activities, as well as supporting website resources, and activities links in the resource section. In the resource section, you will find links your students can use in the computer lab for follow-up practice.

The next set of lessons that I will upload for you will focus on introducing and developing math fact strategies for first and second grade through use of Dot Images, the Rekenrek, and the Tens-Frame.

Tens-Frame for 3

Tens-Frame for 4

Tens-Frame for 5

Tens-Frame for 6

Tens-Frame for 7

Tens-Frame for 8

Tens-Frame for 9

Tens-Frame for 10

I hope you feel that these Smart board lessons will support your morning math routine and help your students develop number sense. Feel free to request more information or send questions. I would be happy to respond.  For anyone who is unable to open Smart Board documents, I will be creating these in power point when I have completed the Smart Board Lessons. Keep watching for additional Smart board lessons and activities that can also be used for centers. 

Smartboard Lessons - Rekenreks for Building Math Number Sense K-1

Here is the next set of Smart board lessons created from:  “Number Talks Helping Children Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies. These lessons include an increasingly popular visual math model, called the “Rekenrek”. 

The Rekenrek is a math rack that provides a visual model to help develop strategic reasoning. It is a powerful manipulative model for young learners. The Rekenrek (developed by mathematics education researchers in the Netherlands) combines the strengths of other manipulatives (e.g., number lines, base-10 blocks, counters, etc.) in one easy to use tool. 

The 30+ daily rekenrek lessons provide multiple opportunities for your students to work with and visualize numbers in a variety of combinations. A work mat has been included in the Smart board attachments for classrooms that do not have actual rekenreks for students to use. Also, at the end of each document is a link to an online supplier of this math tool that I used to purchase my own class set of rekenreks.

All Smart board lessons provide a lesson plan to facilitate direct instruction and follow-up activities, as well as supporting website resources, and activities links in the resource section. In the resource section, you will find links your students can use in the computer lab for follow-up practice.

The next set of lessons that I will upload for you will focus on using Tens-Frames to help children build their visual and mental math skills. Feel free to request more information or send questions. I would be happy to respond.  For anyone who is unable to open Smart Board documents, I will be creating these in power point as soon as I have completed the Smart Board Lessons.

Rekenrek for 3 

Rekenrek for 4

Rekenrek for 5

Rekenrek for 6

Rekenrek for 7

Rekenrek for 8

Rekenrek for 9

Rekenrek for 10

Here is an additional source that can be downloaded as a pdf document:

How to Use a Rekenrek

I will be uploading power point lessons of these same smart board lessons for classrooms that do not have Smart Boards when I have completed them. Again, if you have an questions, suggestions, or comments, feel free to contact me.

Smartboard Lessons - Dot Detectives for Building Math Number Sense K-1

"Number Talks Building Mental Math and Computation Strategies K-5" provides over 800 lessons for teachers to introduce and build Mental Math skills for students. I have taken these lessons and presented them within the Smart Board format.  These lessons provide the initial introduction for kindergarten-grade 1 students to develop their conservation of number.

Dot Detectives provides over 50 daily lessons to use with your students. These lessons meet the Common Core Standards for Math. Each of the documents I have included for today, provides a lesson plan for teachers to introduce and follow-up on these mental math skills. Additional resources including supporting website resources and activities links are at the end of each of these documents.

Common Core Standards for Math
1. Make sense of problems and persevere to solve them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Next week I will add the next set of lessons using the Rekenrek (Math Rack) to help children build their visual and mental math skills. Feel free to request more information or send questions. I would be happy to respond.  For anyone who is unable to open Smart Board documents, I will be creating these in power point as soon as I have completed the Smart Board Lessons.

Dot Detectives for 3

Dot Detectives for 4

Dot Detectives for 5

Dot Detectives for 6

Dot Detectives for 7

Dot Detectives for 8

Dot Detectives for 9

Dot Detectives for 10