Table Of ContentBig Math Activities for Young Children for
title: Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary
Children
Overholt, James L.; White-Holtz, Jackie.;
author:
Dickson, Sydney S.
publisher: Delmar Career and Education Publishing
isbn10 | asin: 0766800180
print isbn13: 9780766800182
ebook isbn13: 9780585058382
language: English
Mathematics--Study and teaching
subject
(Primary)--Activity programs.
publication date: 1998
lcc: QA135.5.O9 1998eb
ddc: 372.7
Mathematics--Study and teaching
subject:
(Primary)--Activity programs.
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Big Math Activities for Young Children
for
Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary Children
James L. Overholt, Ed.D.
California State University
Chico, California
Jackie White-Holtz, M.Ed.
Pine Grove School
Pine Grove, California
Sydney S. Dickson, Ed.D.
California State University (emerita)
Chico, California
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Overholt, James L.
Big math activities for young children / by James L. Overholt,
Jackie White-Holtz, Sydney S. Dickson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7668-0018-0
1. MathematicsStudy and teaching (Preschool-Kindergarten-Primary)
Activity programs. I. White-Holtz, Jackie. II. Dickson, Sydney S. III. Title.
QA135.5.09 1998
372.7dc21 98-3263
CIP
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Contents
About This Resource ix
About the Authors x
Suggestions for Using Big Math Activities xi
Chapter 1 Number Sense and Counting 1
Number Search Walk Number Recognition and 2
Awareness
Find That Number Number Recognition and 4
Quantity
Number Write Number (Numeral) Formation 6
Number Bake Number (Numeral) Formation 8
Number Book Number Sense 10
Calendar Game Counting to Six 13
Leg Count Counting and Categorizing 14
Musical Count Counting and Number Sense to 16
Ten
Hang That Number Number Order One through Ten18
Table Math Counting Applications 20
Eatable Math Counting with Understanding 21
Capture the Critter Counting to Ten 22
Before and After Number Order 25
Two by Two Counting by Twos 27
Number Bowling Counting and Tallying 29
More or Less Comparing Numbers 31
Cereal Count Counting and Place Value 33
Fraction Play Dough Fraction Concepts 35
Underhand Number Combination 37
Understandings
Rocks in Hand Estimation and Counting 38
Teen Recognition Teen Numbers (1119) and Place39
Value
Fraction Plates Fraction Values 42
Birthday List Number Use and Order 44
Order Race Number Order (131) 47
Counting with Counting and Place Value 49
Glasses
Finding Fractions Fractions in Different Forms 51
Right on/Before/After Place Value and More and Less 52
Roll
Closer Is Better Place Value 55
Fractions Can Be Fraction Applications 59
Tricky
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Chapter 2 Number Operations 63
Combinations in the Hand Number Combinations and 64
Logic
Cover That Number Number Recognition and 66
Addition Facts
Rolling Math Beans Number Combinations and 69
Probability
Get Ten Number Combinations and 72
Mental Math
Add 'Em and Eat 'Em Addition and Place Value 73
Animal Adoption Subtraction 75
Above, Below, In, Left, Position and Number Fact 77
Right Concepts
Before/After Roll Number Recognition and 79
Addition
Drop the Money Addition or Subtraction 81
with Money
Coin Trade Money Value and Addition 82
Money Match Math Coin Values and 85
Exchanges
What Price? Problem Solving, Addition 87
and Subtraction
Number Mystery Puzzle Mental Math Computation 89
and Logic
