Math Vocabulary Books - All About Larger Numbers

Trying to remember so much math vocabulary can be hard for first graders. I even have trouble remembering what vocabulary we've covered and not covered sometimes. This year I decided to write class books to wrap up each unit and summarize the concepts taught. Before we take our 9 weeks tests, we will go back and read our books to review. I have also placed these books in the "Math Books" math station - an idea inspired by Debbie Diller's new math station book.
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Ordering Larger Numbers with Bean Sticks and Music!

This was a fun activity to practice counting, writing and ordering larger numbers from least to greatest. Each student got a bean stick mat, beans, and Post-It notes. As music played the kids placed the beans on the bean sticks by 10's as quickly as they could. When the music stopped, the kids counted their sets of tens and ones and wrote the numbers on the sticky note. I had them write 30 + 5 = 35 for example. Then each group ordered all of the numbers at their table from least to greatest. We cleared the boards, repeated the process and the kids inserted the new numbers into the Post-It line several times. Great practice for least to greatest and fun with the music! :)

Place Value With Students' Initials

Just a cute way to have a little fun with place value... Photos are pretty self explanatory. The kids had so much fun. My colleague next door, Ms. Pollard, had her students make the initial larger, and this worked a little better giving them a higher number of tens and ones to count.