Math Update

Dear Math Families,
I wanted to update you on some of the new manipulatives and games we have been playing in our classroom. We are using our new Rekenreks every day. The rekenreks are the white and red wooden tools you see in some of the pictures above. They help us visualize and manipulate numbers in chunks of 5 and 10s. Ask your child to explain how we can show 7 or 14, for example. What numbers do you see in the pictures above?
We have also played many games with coins. Ask you child how we play "Nickels and Pennies" and how we make exchanges between the coins.
Lastly, every day we share number sentences for how many days we have been in school. We wanted to share some of those. Ask your child to explain. Ask your child to figure out the turn-around fact for some of them. Ask your child to create new ones for the target number indicated in the pictures.
Happy Math!