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Description
Counting collections build number sense and lay the foundation for elementary mathematics. Engage your students in one week of Counting Collections and then use as a weekly routine, extensions or as intervention.
What is Counting Collections?
Counting Collections are simple, but powerful routine where students figure out "how many" objects are in their collection. Students count, organize, record, and share their strategies. Counting Collections is an authentic opportunity for make sense of numbers, build strategies, and discuss math in ways that build number sense and math confidence.
The approach to teaching Counting Collections utilizes the 5 problem solving steps of Word Problem Workshop book (coming October 2025) or the WPW Teacher Training online course.
*Don't worry there's an entire explanation of the Word Problem Workshop process inside this resource, you'll get everything you need!
What is This Resource?
Counting Collections gives you everything you need to assess, teach, support, extend and engage your students in counting their collections and building number sense.
Inside, you’ll find:
- A full week of thoughtfully crafted lesson plans
- Setting up the collections (spreadsheets, organization suggestions, etc.)
- Student Recording forms for counting collections (4 different versions)
- Checklists to keep track of student progress
- An assessment to properly match your students with a quantity to count. You can continue to use this assessment as progress monitoring!
How to Use the Counting Collection Bundle:
- Set up your own collections and review the lesson plan
- Teach the first week of counting collections in 1 week or spread it out over several weeks.
- Use as a weekly routine to engage students in spiral counting skills.
- Use the provided questions to support students
- Re-assess students throughout the year to track their progress
- Use an an INTERVENTION for students lacking number sense.
See (hear) Word Problem Workshop in action:
Other Word Problem Workshop resources here
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What others say
Description
Counting collections build number sense and lay the foundation for elementary mathematics. Engage your students in one week of Counting Collections and then use as a weekly routine, extensions or as intervention.
What is Counting Collections?
Counting Collections are simple, but powerful routine where students figure out "how many" objects are in their collection. Students count, organize, record, and share their strategies. Counting Collections is an authentic opportunity for make sense of numbers, build strategies, and discuss math in ways that build number sense and math confidence.
The approach to teaching Counting Collections utilizes the 5 problem solving steps of Word Problem Workshop book (coming October 2025) or the WPW Teacher Training online course.
*Don't worry there's an entire explanation of the Word Problem Workshop process inside this resource, you'll get everything you need!
What is This Resource?
Counting Collections gives you everything you need to assess, teach, support, extend and engage your students in counting their collections and building number sense.
Inside, you’ll find:
- A full week of thoughtfully crafted lesson plans
- Setting up the collections (spreadsheets, organization suggestions, etc.)
- Student Recording forms for counting collections (4 different versions)
- Checklists to keep track of student progress
- An assessment to properly match your students with a quantity to count. You can continue to use this assessment as progress monitoring!
How to Use the Counting Collection Bundle:
- Set up your own collections and review the lesson plan
- Teach the first week of counting collections in 1 week or spread it out over several weeks.
- Use as a weekly routine to engage students in spiral counting skills.
- Use the provided questions to support students
- Re-assess students throughout the year to track their progress
- Use an an INTERVENTION for students lacking number sense.
See (hear) Word Problem Workshop in action:
Other Word Problem Workshop resources here
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Lynda, this is a new product so this feedback is incredibly valueable! Thank you for sharing. ~Mona
