Wee Steamers: Care to Share?
“Care to Share?” is a fun and friendly video for young children that explores how math is a helpful tool when it comes to sharing! Whether it’s dividing blocks, cookies, or crayons equally, children will see how simple numbers make sharing fair and fun!
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CATEGORY:math |
GRADE LEVEL:early childhood |
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Eggs in the Carton
Your budding mathematicians will love this fun early division game! Players take turns rolling a die and removing eggs from a carton. When it's empty, they count and compare their eggs. Great for practicing quantification, comparison, division, and remainders. Older preschoolers can tally and compare totals. (Sheila Kerwin)
Divide the Pom-Poms
Adapt the “Sorting Pom-Poms by Size” activity from the Toddler at Play website for an active division game! Glue a small, medium, and large pom-pom to the poster to enhance visual clues. Children will practice math skills in quantification, size, comparison, and early division. http://www.toddleratplay.com/2020/01/18/sorting-pom-poms-by-size-activity/
Set the Snack Table
Encourage your classroom helpers to prepare the snack table for their classmates! Provide two children with napkins and drinking cups. Say, “Take these napkins and cups, and place them on the table so every friend has one napkin and one cup.” This daily routine encourages skills in one-to-one correspondence, early division, while also teaching social skills, kindness, and cooperation. (Sheila Kerwin)
Share the Pennies
Your young mathematicians will thoroughly enjoy this activity as they roll the die, remove that number of pennies from the collection, and work to give each other an equal number of pennies. This game familiarizes children with skills in quantification, symbols, early division, and the concept of remainder. https://www.weareteachers.com/teaching-division-games-activities/
Share a Banana with Your Partner
At snack time, have children partner up, giving each pair a peeled banana and two square pieces of 3” X 3” tagboard for a nonstandard unit of measurement. Ask, “How can you divide the banana, using these squares, so you each get the same amount?” A fun way to explore measurement, early division, comparison, and one-to-one correspondence! (Sheila Kerwin)
