Cover number sense standards with this Numbers, Counting and Ordering unit of study for 1st and 2nd grades.
This is another free unit of study for teachers from The Curriculum Corner.
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This number sense unit of study is designed to be an introductory math unit for your school year.
You can introduce or review number sense skills with these lessons. Choose the activities that fit your students’ needs.
You will find the complete collection of printables needed for these lessons by clicking on the bold Number Sense Unit, blue words at the bottom of this post.
You might also need this free collection when studying number sense:
Some of the materials you will need to complete the activities below are found within our
(Click the blue title to be able to download the free kit.)
Ideas for your Number Sense Unit of Study
Get active with a Life-Size Number Line!
- Create your own using the full size number cards found within our math tools collection.
- Tape the number cards on the floor to create a number line.
- Another alternative is to line up 10 students and have each hold a number card.
- Choose a volunteer student to start on a given number. Have the student practice going up or down a given number. For example, you might ask a student to count up 2. The student will demonstrate moving up 2. Be sure to talk about where the student started and ended.
- You might enforce the skills being practice by writing an addition or subtraction fact on the board.
Printable Number Line Practice
Within the download, you will find multiple number line practice pages. Students practice moving up and down on a number line.
Help Students Build Beginning Number Relationships!
We suggest printing the dot cards found within our math tools collection to help students build number relationships. Along with the dot cards, we also like having dominoes to use as an additional manipulative.
Ideas for introducing these materials during your reading workshop are below:
- Share the dot cards and dominoes with students.
- Have students practice identifying the number of dots on each.
- Have students share observations and patterns they see. Students might notice that a domino with six dots is a double of three or a domino with one dot doesn’t make a pair.
- Allow students to get in small groups and practice recognizing numbers on the cards and dominoes.
- Place students in partners or small groups. Give each group a set of ten frame flashcards. Students practice identifying the numbers on each card.
- Once students have been introduced to the concept of using dominoes and dot cards for math, these make an easy, ready to go center or morning activity.
Beginning Number Relationships Students practice recognizing sets of objects in patterned arrangements using dot cards and dominoes.
Demonstrate Part-Part-Whole Relationships to Build Number Sense
To work on this concept, students will practice finding combinations to make a number using 2 and 3 parts.
How to Use our Football Cards
- You can use the cards containing 10 footballs. Laminate and cut apart so you have 10 footballs. (You might even enlarge the footballs when printing to make your manipulatives larger.)
- Attach magnets to the back and you can use on your board to demonstrate part-part-whole relationships.
- Place the 10 football magnets on the board.
- Have students look at them and find a combination they can use to make the number 10. For example: 5 + 5 = 10, 4 + 6 = 10, etc. Create a list of the problems the students find.
- Repeat this activity with different numbers of football (i.e. work to make a list of combinations that will make the sum of 8.)
- For older students you may choose to move on to combinations of three numbers to create the whole.
After practicing as a whole group, place students in small groups. Give each group counters and whiteboards or pencil and paper. Have students practice creating part-part-whole relationships with different numbers.
I love this as a morning activity as well. Put a number on the board (start with a number between 1 and 10 and then increase the number as students get better at the activity.) Have students write a part-part-whole relationship on the board under the number when they enter the room. Students love trying to think of the most creative way to get to the number. They will soon move on from two numbers to using three and four numbers.
Help Students Anchor Numbers to Five and Ten to Build Number Sense
Use 5 and 10 frames (you will find some in the download) to help students build an understanding of 5s and 10s. You will also find 5 and 10 frames flashcards within our math tools kit that you can use in your classroom.
Using the blank five and ten frame charts:
- Five and Ten Frame Cards (It is a good idea to print and laminate these for durability. They make great flashcards! You should make enough sets for each pair or group of three to have their own to use.)
- You can also make a set of large cards – just increase the size.
- Round counters or bingo chips (Items in the shape of a circle are best, it will allow for consistency when students move on to the ten frame flashcards. )
Procedure:
- Give each student a blank five frame chart and counters or markers. Give students numbers between 1 and 5 and have them place counters on the frame to create the number.
- Have students share observations they make after they create each number. Students may notice that the number 3 has 2 empty boxes, the number 5 can fill the row and there are five empty boxes when you make the number zero.
- When students are comfortable with the five frames, introduce the five frame flashcards. Hold one card up and have students identify the number of dots. Place students in partners or small groups. Give each group a set of five frame flashcards. Students practice identifying the numbers on each card. Repeat the activities for the ten frames.
- Extension Activities: Once students are comfortable with identifying the number of dots, you can add these activities to practice time. Say the number of empty spaces on the card instead of the number of dots. Say one more than the number of dots (also practice two more, one less or two less) Say the ten fact (if there are three dots – 3 + 7 = 10)
Helping Students with Reading and Writing Numbers to 100
Within the number sense download you will find the following:
- Beginning Number Words reading and writing numbers to 10, includes drawing pictures
- Reading Number Words to 100 practice page for homework or use as an assessment
- I Have, Who Has reading numerals game – contains 30 cards for a whole class game (print on colored cardstock and laminate for durability)
- I Have, Who Has reading number words game – contains 30 cards for a whole class game
- Read the Number independent practice activity or center with printable number word cards
Counting On and Counting Back to 50
Large number cards, printed and laminated (We have created a set of 10 – 20, a set of 30 – 40 and a set of 40 – 50. We have also included 70-80 for the next set of activities. )
- Make Space! (Move desks aside in your room or ahead outside.)
- Hand ten students a number card. Have them line up in order and sit while holding their number card in front of them for other students to see.
- Choose a student that is not part of your number line and give them a number to stand in front of. Give them a number to move to. Ask how many jumps it was from the beginning to end. Repeat with other students.
- With a different set of cards, only hand out 7. Have the students get in order, leaving a space where a number is missing. Ask students to identify which numbers are missing.
- These activities can become morning centers.
Counting On and Counting Back to 100
(missing numbers in a series, identify number of jumps between numbers)
What’s Missing? – students complete the 100s charts. We have included charts with missing 10s, 5s and random numbers.
Comparing Whole Numbers to 100(arranging whole numbers in order)
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- Practice Activity Page comparing numbers to 30
- Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To Center Laminate and cut out the number cards and work mats. Students follow the directions on the work mats, recording the inequalities they make.
Estimating With Whole Numbers
Estimation Station – Number three jars 1, 2 and 3. Put small items in each jar (marbles, beans, counters, jelly beans, etc.) Set up a station where you can place the three jars and copies of the recording sheet. For a morning center, students practice estimating and record their estimates on the paper. This station can be done every morning or once a week for extra practice.
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Counting by Twos, Fives and Tens
No lesson plan is needed to practice these counting skills!
Choose a pattern and have students stand up. Give students an exercise such as jumping jacks, toe touches or windmills. Students count by 2s, 5s or 10s as they do each movement. Children love getting the chance to create their own movement.
This practice can also be done in the hallway with whispering voices.
We’ve included a practice page for counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. The simple design is great to use as a pre- and post-test.
Working on Skip Counting Patterns
Card Counting 21
Use the practice pages we have created to work on patterns.
Blackjack Card Counting 101
Includes pages for working on patterns up to 100 along with patterns between 100 and 1,000.
Odd or Even Numbers
To teach odd and even numbers, try these free resources: Odd and Even Numbers.
We have included two odd and even number practice pages in the download below.
Ordinal Numbers
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Use assorted shapes to help students practice using ordinal numbers. I would give my students a handful of shapes, they make a random line of ten, and get to work.
Building Number Sense with 100s Chart Math
You will find printable 100s chart to be used for these activities within our math tool kit. These 100s Chart Practice Pages require your students to weave reading skills with math skills. There are four different options.
You can download the complete Number Sense: Numbers, Counting & Ordering Unit of Study here:
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It is interesting to note that the longer a person has played Blackjack i.e.,., the more and the broader his Blackjack experience is, the less he is likely to be a card counter. Card counting, in the long run, is just a phase that the devoted player goes through. I mean devoted to serious learning, as well as playing. The average player tends to go through an identifiable sequence of learning phases. First, he plays and quickly learns how tough the game is and what an enormous quick cash drain it can be. Most quit at that point.
Others are driven either by a need to get even with the casinos or a yearning for knowledge. So they begin to “read up” on the game. Either way, they typically go to the gaming section of a bookstore, look at the myriad of “knowledge” available and buy several books by their covers and maybe a quick glance through. These will most likely be card counting books because that is mostly all that is available in most bookstores. Pouring over these books at home, the first thing they will notice is that these books do not compete with one another at all but, rather, strongly agree with one another, and even recommend each other. This unity gives the reader tremendous confidence in his “project.”
Soon we will see him home practicing card counting with a stopwatch. His first attempts will have him counting down a deck in something more than 35 seconds and usually making several mistakes. Typically his first goal will be to beat 30 seconds without any errors, most have more difficulty, at this point, with the card manipulation and less and less with keeping the count correctly. Twenty seconds becomes a tough barrier to overcome until his card handling catches up to his counting skills. A few will eventually beat 15 seconds but most never quite make 20 seconds. During this phase, our devoted counter in training tends to live, eat, sleep and talk Blackjack often to the exclusion of all life’s other interests. He quickly becomes a “bore” to most everyone around him, much to his surprise, and learns that Blackjack is not a spectator sport and is utterly boring to the average person. He finds that nothing will clean out his section of the lunch table faster. He longs for and searches for others with mutual interests. And he finds them. He quickly learns that counters are numerous and have their magazines, more books and internet groups. He becomes a counter groupie and quickly learns that this group is well organized with their hierarchy. The length of this phase depends largely on two factors. How much he plays and how much of that play is in Nevada. Many students of the game who can’t afford to play find themselves on the groupie trail for a long time because there is nothing to discourage them, like losing play, and everything to encourage them. They are constantly bombarded with encouragement on the merits of counting as well as the discouragement of any other method. If the students play is limited to Nevada or mostly Nevada, this is also likely to prolong his counting phase simply because counting works better in Nevada than anywhere else because of single and two deck Blackjack as well as 6 as opposed to 8 deck shoe games as well as the reduced average players per game in Nevada. He may even become a successful counter in Nevada although this will almost always entail self-taught improvisations like sticking to a single deck and developing a talent for when and where to play – items he is not likely to find in his book collection. Outside of Nevada, however, the counter often becomes quickly discouraged and either quits the game or develops other ways or learns alternate methods of play. I won’t say that there are no successful counters outside of Nevada, but I will say that if there are, they are an extremely rare breed and have adapted to a situation by improvisation. For instance, in Zero Proximity, a counting system, which those four deck games with a count spread that consistently remains between plus and minus 9 are usually beatable with basic strategy and advantage betting by increasing your bet as the count approaches zero. Some have also successfully applied this system to two decks. Now, don’t think even for a minute that I have revealed enough here for you to go out and do this.
The quick discouragement of the outside Nevada counting student comes from three sources. He quickly sees losses far more than those talked about in counting books and far more than those explained away by “standard deviation.” And those losses are usually confirmed by other counting students around him. Next, he soon realizes that the outside Nevada casinos have no fear of, or respect for, his card counting efforts. That wasn’t in the books. The books talked about having to wear disguises and perfecting a good act. And finally, the real world of Blackjack Biases hits him like a brick. Since this subject wasn’t even touched on in the books he read, he quickly suspects his books are lacking in real world fact and familiarity. At this stage, some counting students revolt to the point of book burning ceremonies.
Another very common bias is dealer ten magnetism ( I am aware that sounds huckster but for lack of a better term). I find myself chanting. Two tens out and the dealer got both of them or three tens out and the dealer got two of them. It seems like once this begins it keeps right on happening. When this bias shows its ugly face we often begin counting on the dealer getting her ten down to match her ten up because it just keeps happening. We see dealers averaging way more than their normal 18.2 per hand and this bias is often accompanied by a low Dealer Break Ratio. When these biases are together accompanied by an obscene number of dealer ten ups then we know we are in Atlantic City and it’s Saturday night again. What have your experiences been and what do you think causes them?
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