a glimpse into math workshop

Playing math games and engaging with manipulatives helps children to develop a deeper number sense. Through our workshop, the children are actively decomposing numbers, recording how many, developing strategies for grouping numbers to quickly recognize an amount, noticing similarities and differences in shapes, and setting the foundation for our work writing, reading, and solving equations.

 

 

Our workshop always starts with a mini lesson. Through the lesson, new strategies or games are introduced. Sometimes, the lesson is a math read aloud with specific math terms, other times it might be working with materials as a whole group. On this day, children built number racks. Number racks further support children's developing number sense. Our number racks will be an additional tool for encouraging children to think in groups of fives and tens, supporting their developing addition and subtraction strategies.