Number writing is a skill that requires a lot of practice and if your students are anything like mine, after a while they do not want to...

Rekenrek Overview Rekenreks, also called math racks, number racks, or arithmetic racks are a great tool to encourage students to develop...

What is a Rekenrek? Have you seen a math rack or rekenrek before ? The rekenrek is a math tool that was created by Adruan Treffers of the...

What is a forgotten elementary math manipulative? There are some math tools I use all the time in class that the kids love! After years...

Math Dice Games for Kindergarten or First Grade Dice are such a versatile and fun math tool for my classroom. The teacher in my room...

A play-based approach to homework in kindergarten. I don’t really care for homework if it's a worksheet that the kids will not get much...

Ideas and tips and lessons for how to introduce and teach composing and decomposing numbers 1-10 in Kindergarten

What Are Quick Images? Quick Images is a number sense-building activity that you can do with your kindergarten or first-grade students...