Lessons
This activity provides students with practice ordering numbers 1 to 10. The activity also teaches students the importance of starting with the largest number on bottom, a concept which can later be applied to basic addition.
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Sample Lesson from Early Childhood Activity Card. The aim of this activity is to encourage students to break numbers into various parts to reinforce the concept that two smaller numbers can equal a larger number. This activity is also a great opportunity to learn that stacking larger numbers first, leads to a stronger structure.
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Breaking down and reconstructing combinations of ten helps students begin with simple addition and develop that skill into handling more complex math problems. Who can use all the available blocks and build a tower that reaches the highest?
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The Bridge Race is a simple game that uses students' knowledge of the various ways to achieve sums of ten. Using the Tower of Ten they can often repeat combinations they are familiar with, but Bridge Race pushes them into using all of the variations.
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This lesson is an initial introduction to multiplication. The students work together stacking blocks to create walls, with accompanied explanations they will begin to understand that each number stack in the wall is a factor of the largest number.
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