Activities and ideas geared towards teaching addition and subtraction in the kindergarten classroom.
Work on addition skills with a free set of rainbow-themed bump-style gameboards. Teach your students to play bump once and use it all year for varying levels of difficulty. In kindergarten, students should have strong counting skills and be working to develop a strong understanding of addition. I find that using games during our guided…
Work on addition skills with a free set of bump-style winter-themed gameboards. Teach your students to play bump once and use it all year for varying levels of difficulty. In kindergarten, students should have strong counting skills and be working to develop a strong understanding of addition. I find that using games during our guided…
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students’ subtraction fluency skills. In kindergarten, students should be able to add and subtract fluently within five. This easy-to-play game focuses on that skill and makes it fun. This Grinchy subtraction game is perfect to use…
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students’ subtraction fluency skills. In kindergarten, students should be able to add and subtract fluently within five. This easy-to-play game focuses on that skill and makes it fun. This dinnertime subtraction game was inspired by Mrs….
Work on subtracting within five with a free printable game. Grab this free subtraction bump game to build your students’ subtraction fluency skills. In kindergarten, students should be able to add and subtract fluently within five. This easy-to-play game focuses on that skill and makes it fun. This off-road subtraction game was inspired by Mrs….
Work on understanding addition sentences and composing the number five with this free bingo game for kindergarten. Bingo is a classic way to practice recognizing skills in a small group setting. Here is a ‘making 5’ addition activity we do during our math groups to help practice our Kindergarten Common Core standards. Why I made this…
Making 5 is one of the basic and fundamental ideas that come from the Common Core standards in kindergarten. Students should be able to subitize, manipulate, create and pull apart very well in order to lay a solid foundation for further concepts. This year, I realized that I should’ve slowed down in this area for…
Number sense and learning to write and use numbers 0-10 is a pretty big deal the first nine weeks of kindergarten. Here is a set of materials that helps me teach kindergarteners how to form the numerals and teach them how to count one-to-one all the way to ten. Because, let’s be honest. Lots of kinders…
Work on addition and subtraction in kindergarten by playing games. Here is a collection of 11 free bump gameboards that kindergarteners can use to build their math skills. Bump-style games are perfect for kindergarten because they can be played by a single player or they can be a partner game. These games I’ve made practice these…
Working on subtraction has been a goal of mine in teaching math to kindergartners. This free kindergarten subtraction game “What’s the Difference?” is one example of how I’m working to teach subtraction in various ways to better meet the needs of my students. Let me share why I’m venturing into teaching math in deeper ways…
Finding ways to meet my students’ needs has been a big push in self growth for me this year. With a new batch of kinders coming I know that yet again, I’ll be faced to do it all over. It has been very rewarding and the value far outweighed any of the planning and work…
Two weeks ago, I was fussily taking some photos from our math journals to share and it hit me. I was teaching my kinders wrong! Okay, not wrong, but I could be teaching them better! Why, when I am working with them in groups or during our whole group calendar time, am I modeling subtraction by doing…
Starting this quarter I want to reward my kinders with knowing they are increasing their skills by giving them a repetitive activity that’ll show growth. Dare I say, they will be getting a “timed test?” Most of my kinders will love the challenge and I’ve worked at putting it together so that it is meaningful…
Two years ago I decided to make a change to my calendar time. It was scary territory and I invited you along for the adventure. What prompted this change? It was about the same time that I started teaching the majority of my day in small groups. I decided to integrate calendar binders for four…
This year I wanted to be more diligent about teaching various addition strategies as options for my students to explore to solve simple equations. I wanted to emphasize using ten frames, using number lines and a combination of mental math and touch dots. When it came to using the number line, I wasn’t personally as…