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This is a collection of 9 different colorful Cuisenaire Rod "make the road" puzzles which challenges your students to cover a path using exactly one of each rod. Each one has a different colorful background. This is a great activity that your students can do independently during a work time or placed in a math center. There's a handy chart you can fill in with your students' names to keep track of which puzzles they've completed, with fillable form fields. There is also an option for students

This is a collection of 33 different Cuisenaire Rod "Truck Puzzles" that you can print, laminate and set up as math stations: they can be printed in groups of three to a page or individually. Degree of difficulty ranges from 2 to 3 to 4 rods to make a solution. Beautifully designed, fun to use with those Cuisenaire rods that are probably sitting around with no place to go and nothing to do.

This is an attempt to straighten out an important misconception while teaching young children how to sequence the basic numbers from 0 through 9 (also known as "digits"), and then extend that to 20. Wait, did I miss something? As a matter of fact, I didn’t, and that’s because it is everyone else who is missing something: the basic numbers are not 1 through 10; they are, in fact, 0 through 9. The number 10 is not related to the numbers 0 through 9, because these are the “single digit numbers” an

Comparing Numbers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade Take a number tile from a bag: is it a moose or a squirrel? This activity is a fun and lively way for your kids to practice comparing numbers and classifying them as larger (moose) or smaller (squirrel.) The fun never stops: you can start with just placing the tile on the activity sheet in the correct column, or your students can use the moose/squirrel stamps provided to cut and paste the animal into the correct column. A third

Take a number tile from a bag: is it a moose or a squirrel? This activity is a fun and lively way for your kids to practice comparing numbers and classifying them as larger (moose) or smaller (squirrel.) The fun never stops: you can start with just placing the tile on the activity sheet in the correct column, or your students can use the moose/squirrel stamps provided to cut and paste the animal into the correct column. A third variation asks students to state how far the numbers is from the co

Ah yes, nice to see you back again. This is a number comparison activity I developed for my first grade teacher, but I've also used it with my kindergarteners and pre-k. It's cute, but not cutesy. Students take a number tile and place it on the game sheet at the top. They then take additional number tiles and decide whether it is an "elephant" (bigger than the number at the top) or "mouse" (smaller than the number at the top) and paste the correct stamp in the second column. A second version i

This is an attempt to straighten out an important misconception while teaching young children how to sequence the digits from 0 through 9. Wait, did I miss something? As a matter of fact, I didn’t, and that’s because it is everyone else who is missing something: the basic numbers are not 1 through 10; they are, in fact, 0 through 9. The number 10 is not related to the numbers 0 through 9, because these are the “single digit numbers” and 10, if you’ve looked at it closely, is a 2 digit number.

Greetings friend & fellow educator, Here we go again: just when you thought you had everything fixed up and all your ducks lined up in a neat little row, I’m back to give you some straight talk about place value, because, as I’m fond of saying, you’re teaching it wrong. Not only are you teaching it wrong, but you probably don’t even understand much of it yourself. Oh, you thought you knew everything, just because you bought a few games and did some random stuff with those silly “foldables” th

Here's the deal: you want your kids to do challenging puzzles with interesting shapes (I'm talking to >you<, pattern blocks!) but the problem is that many of these puzzles are waaaay too hard for your pre-K through 1st graders. Even a 2 piece pentomino puzzle would require sorting through 105 combinations of 15 different pentomino pieces before locating the correct pair to make the shape. What I've done here is break down the process into three steps: the first set of puzzles practices id

This is a baker's dozen of task cards that you can put out for your students to measure different parts of their bodies (circumference of head, height, waist size, foot size, leg length, etc.) using Learning Links. If you have them around, you've probably wondered what to do with them. If you've never used Learning Links (they go by a variety of names), you can pick up a 500 link kit for about $15 from Pricefalls.com Click here to buy them! You're students should work in pairs to measure

These are puzzles which range from the easy to the challenging that turn into picture frames for your kiddies! Print out a page, your students cut out the stamps on the bottom and put them in the frames to complete the pattern. Then take a photo of your kid and put him or her right in the picture! 10 different puzzles, from easy to difficult, perfect for pre-K through 2nd grade. Includes printable stamps that you can use to make your own puzzles!

This is the most complete guide you will ever own that answers each and every one of the questions you have ever had about teaching subtraction from grades K - 6. I mean, EVERY SINGLE THING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT TEACHING SUBTRACTION FROM Kindergarten through 6th GRADE. How can this possibly be? Because it's over 75 pages long! This massively documented booklet includes EVERYTHING, including: • Why you should model subtraction beyond "SOAR" * What are the essential properties of subtr

You've got the links, here are 75 different pattern puzzles for you to print out in full color, complete with answers. Set them up as math centers by putting the solutions on the back of the problem, use them as "problem of the day" or send them home with a bag of links for parents to solve with their kids. This set has 3 different types of pattern problems: • Problems where the student "continues" the pattern shown on the card; that is, the pattern shows the first 5 - 8 links that establishes

Do you have a bucket full of plastic links in one of your bins and wondering what can you possibly do with a huge pail of these colorful plastic links. Your prayers have been answered! These are 10 different measurement cards, in 8 x 10 as well as 5 x 8 that you can print out, laminate and set up "estimation stations" which your kids will enjoy. They will estimate the length of their hand, and then measure it, as well as their foot, arm and around their head. They'll measure the longest and sh

The Bump Game (& Variations) is an activity where kindergarten students learn how to count up and count down from a given number and then practice that skill using "bump up" and "bump down" cards. There are supersized cards that you can use to demonstrate the activity with the class, as well as individual games that students can play in pairs. As a bonus, I've included "DIY" games that you or students can make on their own. Enjoy! Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchase

This set of 10 different "estimation stations" develops students' understanding of length, perimeter and area by using Cuisenaire Rods of different lengths. Students record their estimates on a "data sheet" and then make and record exact measurements, measuring such things as the length of their foot, the area of a hand and the perimeter of a design.

10 Christmas Pattern Puzzles, from the very easy to the very hard. Students cut out "stamps" at the bottom of the page and place them in the missing space. Watch out: there are more stamps than there are places to put them. And, at a fellow TpT member's suggestion, includes answer key!