Give your students meaningful hands-on math activities with chain links to practice important math skills. This set includes activities to practice non-standard measurement, color patterns, ordinal numbers and more!

This resource includes 8 hands-on activities to use with colored chain links, either in morning tubs as morning work or for math centers or early finishers!

Are you interested in a digital version? Check out this resource which includes the print and Google Slides version.

Morning Tubs | Math Centers for Links with Google Slides option

This Morning Tub is also available as part of a money-saving BUNDLE. You can check out all the sets included and save money by purchasing the whole collection here: Morning Tub Tasks Bundle.

The goal for my morning tubs is to create activities that use common classroom manipulatives and items. They are low-prep; just print the student pages or instructions, and you are ready to go.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PRINT RESOURCE AND THE VIDEO TO PREVIEW THE DIGITAL RESOURCE.

This set contains 8 different activities for using plastic math links. Each center has detailed teacher instructions.

This resource contains 8 activities to be used with RED, BLUE, YELLOW, GREEN, links.

• Ordinal Links: Students choose 1 of 12 Ordinal Links cards and place the links on an ordinal strip according to the ordinal numbers. There are ordinal strips with numbers and without.

• Extend my Pattern: Students choose from 12 cards and place the links in the correct orientation to extend the pattern.

• Pattern Puzzlers: Students choose from 12 different puzzlers strips and will use links to create the patterns according to the given pattern rule.

• Keep it Going! : Students link the links to continue the pattern shown.

• Link to Add: Students solve an addition problem by linking a known number of links to the card and then adding links on in another color to get the sum.

• How Long Is It?: Students will choose 1 of 12 different picture cards and measure by placing the links on the line on the picture to measure the length. Laminate these picture cards for repeated use.

• Find and Measure: Students take a card, find the object in the classroom, measure it with links, and record the number on the laminated card.

• Graphing with Links: There are two options for graphing mats - Grab and Graph (you add a paper bag with links) or Spin and Graph (add a paperclip for the spinner). Students complete the tally cart and graph the results.

Are you looking for more Morning Tub options? Check out:
• Morning Tubs with Base 10 Blocks

• Morning Tubs with Colored Tiles

• Morning Tubs with Counting Bears

• Morning Tubs with Cuisenaire Rods

• Morning Tubs with Dice

• Morning Tubs with Dominoes

• Morning Tubs with Geoboards

• Morning Tubs with Linking Cubes

• Morning Tubs with Links

• Morning Tubs with Money - US coins & Canadian Coins

• Morning Tubs with Pattern Blocks

• Morning Tubs with Pentominoes

• Morning Tubs with Playing Cards

• Morning Tubs with Popsicle Sticks

• Morning Tubs with Tangrams

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