Making Number Sense Make Sense

Are you having trouble finding engaging story problems or Building Thinking Classrooms noncurricular tasks for kindergarten, first grade or second grade that are accessible for young mathematicians? This bundle follows the Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics methodology with 4 low floor high ceiling math tasks about counting, comparing numbers, growing patterns, and more with Google Slides to launch the lessons and recording sheets for 2 tasks as needed to support the problems. T

Growing students' ability to become engaged early learners and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every kindergarten strand plus some extras!! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of

Growing students' ability to become engaged and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every second grade strand! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of working with any peer, and learn

Growing students' ability to become engaged and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every first-grade strand! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of working with any peer, and learnin

This number rack math center activity is a great way to support your students with developing their number sense, counting, and one-to-one correspondence to 20 and is already differentiated! Bead racks are a great tool to use to give your students a bit more of a challenge if they have mastered 10 Frames or 20 Frames to support their number sense and ability to subitize larger numbers.  Looking for this game using 10 Frames? Get it here! This math station is a great way to give your count and

Enhance your composing and decomposing math centers with this partner game that includes a fun cheeky element to increase engagement! This decomposing numbers center is perfect for your students to playfully practice number bonds to 10!  This math activity is perfect for your whole group, small groups, or math centers! You can introduce this game as you vs the class first so your students can share strategies and support each other's learning before you release this game into a math station, e

Growing students' ability to become engaged and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every first-grade and second-grade strand! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of working with any

Growing students' ability to become engaged and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every Kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade strand! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of working

Growing students' ability to become engaged and effective problem solvers has never been easier than with these Building Thinking Classrooms style math tasks for every Kindergarten and first-grade strand! Your students will love getting immersed in the colorful and captivating task launch slides and feel safe being math risk-takers as they solve the problems with a partner! Imagine this, building a community of mathematicians who are excited to do word problems, capable of working with any

Are you looking for a quick spaced-themed math color-by-code center or early finisher activity to help your students count and recognize those tricky teen numbers with base ten blocks, rekenreks, double ten frames, and numerals? This print-and-play color-by-code math station is for you! Your students will practice counting, identifying, and subitizing teen numbers in these 6 color-by-number pages! This resource comes with 6 pages and a black-and-white version, a version with color crayons if

Are you looking for a quick winter math color-by-code center or early finisher activity to help your students count and recognize those tricky teen numbers with base ten blocks, rekenreks, double ten frames, and numerals? This print-and-play color-by-code math station is for you! Your students will practice counting, identifying, and subitizing teen numbers in these 6 color-by-number pages! This resource comes with 6 pages and a black-and-white version, a version with color crayons if your s

Are you looking for a building thinking classrooms style math task focusing on arrays, equal groups and finding the unknown number? This resource is for you! Your class is tasked with figuring out how many cookie sheets they need in order to bake 56 cookies for the bake sale! Try before you buy! ✨Get a free task!✨ In this resource, you'll get a Building Thinking Classrooms cheat sheet, written task directions, thin-slicing ideas, 4 versions of meaningful notes templates, and three levels of

Are you looking for a low floor-high ceiling, rich noncurricular math task and story problem perfect for kindergarten that will keep your students engaged in the problem-solving process? This task comes with a fun background story to pique their interest, Google Slides visuals to clarify vocabulary and partner work, recording sheets for their work, and an extension for early finishers! Try before you buy! ✨Try a free task!✨ What's Included in this Rich Math Task?1 PDF with:Powerpoint Task

Are you looking for number rack math workshop stations or centers that you can use for kindergarten or first grade? This resource will help you include rekenreks in your math block as a warm-up, during math centers, or as a reflection or exit ticket! Rekenreks or bead racks are a versatile and unique math tool that can help your students practice counting, subitizing, and decomposing numbers to 20! This resource includes quick image cards or flash cards with ideas for use to get the mos

Need a quick, easy fun station for your students? This print and play activity requires no prep and is already differentiated! Students simply roll the dice and write the number they rolled. Make it a race to see which number gets rolled the most for extra fun! Use them all now or bring it back as your students increase their number knowledge! Whats Included in the PDF -Recording sheets for standard dice 1-6 with and without tracer numbers and dice images for more support -Recording sheets for

Make learning about patterns fun with this low prep center to help your students practice the skill of extending patterns that have already been started! This math pattern activity is easy to prep and easy for your students to do independently! This extending pattern center supports students who are still learning to create their own patterns since the core or root of the pattern is already provided! This resource also exposes students to different pattern types to stretch their thinking! What's

These number rack math center activities are a great way to support your students with developing their number sense, counting, and one-to-one correspondence to 20 and practice moving beyond counting by ones to develop more sophisticated counting strategies like unitizing and subitizing are already differentiated! Bead racks are a great tool to use to give your students a bit more of a challenge if they have mastered 10 Frames or 20 Frames to support their number sense and ability to subitize

Do you need a quick activity to support your students’ number sense for numbers 1-120?  These no-prep missing number worksheets will have your students thinking about the 120 chart critically since each sheet only has a portion of the chart instead of the whole thing! These worksheets are more puzzle than busy work with your students figuring out what numbers are missing and using critical thinking to figure out what numbers are missing! You can give your students one sheet per day or give th

Your students have been recruited to find the missing numbers on the hundreds chart stolen by the 100 Chart Thief! These adventures entice your students to find and fill in the missing numbers to 100 in five different formations of 100 chart patterns. This Building Thinking Classrooms style math task will help your students recognize patterns in the 100’s chart and save the day! In this bundle, your students will be tasked with catching 5 different 100 Chart Thieves who all steal the numbers i

This resource is great for students who may need more support continuing their patterns, these pattern templates can be used by students as they begin to become familiar with different types of patterns. What's Included -6 pages of patterns -6 different types of patterns -4 examples of each pattern per page How to Use -Download - Print in color, on card stock for and laminate longevity - leave in sheets or cut into strips - children can match colors to create their patterns! Check out some other