Composing and Decomposing Numbers in Kindergarten

Age-appropriate activities and ideas to use in kindergarten to teach, practice and master composing and decomposing numbers in groups of tens and ones.

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Decomposing and Composing Numbers – Working With Accelerated Kindergartners

Decomposing and Composing Numbers – Working With Accelerated Kindergartners

We discovered why decomposing and composing numbers really is crazy important and dug into our daily schedule to find out how to easily teach composing numbers regularly. This is part 3 of this series – it’s all about taking this standard to a new level! Let’s review real quick: Working on decomposing and composing numbers into their groups of…

Why does 10+6=16?

Why does 10+6=16?

This year I have been using small group math instruction to guide my kinders. I’ve shared how its laid out and even a sample lesson called: Composing & Decomposing: A Guided Math Lesson Plan Flow I am very thankful for the insight that these opportunities provided since the way I was doing math in all…