Number Mat and Lily Pads

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Achievement Objectives
NA1-1: Use a range of counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies with whole numbers and fractions.
NA1-2: Know the forward and backward counting sequences of whole numbers to 100.
Specific Learning Outcomes

Form a set of objects in the range 1–10.

Identify all of the numbers in the range 0–10.

Identify all of the numbers in the range 0–20.

Identify all of the numbers in the range 0–100, at least.

Description of Mathematics

Number Framework Stages 1- 4

Required Resource Materials

Number Mat (Material Master 4-13)

Large Numeral Cards (Material Master 4-3)

Activity

Ask a student to jump on a number that you have chosen for them. The students seated around the outside of the mat can write the answer on the floor in front of them with their fingers, and you can quickly see from this which students can identify the number correctly. The students can play “Twister” by having three or four numbers called out consecutively. The students must use their hands, feet, or head to touch each new number while leaving the other numbers touched. Two or three students can be on the mat at the same time and can be given different sets of numbers to touch.

number mat.

Activity

Extend the previous activity to the Number Sequence and Order part of the Number Framework by asking the students to touch the numbers before or after a given number or set of numbers.

Activity

Use numeral cards lined up in order to create lily pads. The students act as frogs and jump on specific numbers, sequences of numbers, or the number just after or just before a given number.

Make up different sets of numeral cards to reinforce recognition of larger numbers, for example, 40, 41, 42, 43, ... 50.

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