Jessica Hane

11-4-13
Math: Number Card Games (3.9)
Setting: whole class circle on the rug,
Time: 15-20 minutes
Materials: number cards 1-20, pointer, unifix cubes
Objective:
o While sitting in a circle on the rug, students will take turns either
pointing to the correct number card or gather the correct number of
unifix cubes that corresponds with the number the teacher asks for.
o Students will review counting, number recognition, and sequencing
numbers 0-20 through number card activities (Everyday
Mathematics, pg. 158).
Opening:
o Review counting and how we can count by ones, fives, and tens
o Students practice counting money and the number of days weve been
in school everyday, so they should already know how to count
verbally, remind them of this.
Activity:
o Model how to sequence the card deck in the correct number order.
o Once in order, review counting all together by ones, fives, and tens as
you point to each corresponding card.
May want to introduce counting by twos if they got the rest
pretty quickly.
o Ask a few different students to help model different games that can
be played. These may include:
Say a number and have children pick out the corresponding
card.
Say a number and have children pick out the number that
comes before or after.
Count orally together (forward, backward, skip counts) as
children touch the appropriate cards.
Clap a number of times while children silently count and then
pick out the appropriate card.
Tell a child a number and have him/her collect that number of
objects, then find the corresponding card.
Use unifix cubes while doing the whole class example,
but may include other objects during centers.
Closing:
o Explain that they will all get their own deck to sequence and play
games with during centers next week.
o As they transition to recess, call out numbers 0-9 and say that if that
number is in their locker number then they can go line up.
This reinforces the idea that the numbers 0-9 make up all
numbers. For example, the teacher will say If the number 2 is
in your locker number go line up, students with locker
number 2 and 12 will both line up.