It was addition where the sums came to more than 10. Yikes--hard when you can't do it on your fingers!
Anyway, I had a fun time using my brain to think of how I could help him conceptualize and visualize the numbers and the addition.
I pulled out a pack of awesome colored paperclips and we made some piles of 10.
I think they helped him. It was fun to see him trying to think about it anyway, and he did figure out all of them on his own--with a little prompting when I saw a wrong number.
Go Max!
4 comments:
PILES OF TEN!!! Just like SAME!! I feel like some circle just closed. I am SO PROUD!!! You are one wonderful mommy.
i love it. hands on math is just right for little people. and big people. and all people. you are such a cute mama, gin. miss you.
Keep up the good work
Love to you all
Dad
This is wonderful! Kirsten had a hard time with math until we brought out the abacus (sp?). That last photo of his hands is so cute. You can tell he'd just finished counting on his fingers.
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