Number Sense Card Game

My class has fallen in LOVE with "I Have, Who Has" and I'm not one to argue with excitement! Expect to see more and more of these decks in my posts. They can't get enough. :) I thought this would be a great deck for reinforcing mental addition and subtraction using place value.

What I love about this game is that it is quick enough to do for a fun activity during morning meeting or if there are a few spare minutes at the end of math or at dismissal time.

Click on the link below to download:

Place Value Card Game

I made up this quick deck of "I Have, Who Has?" cards for reinforcing place value. This will be pretty easy for most of my class, but some still could use the skill-building.

Of course, when I was about 95% done making these I thought I would google and see if there were any available...and I found a great page on MathWire with lots of different decks.  I'm going to be printing the coin set ASAP! :)  Check it out: http://www.mathwire.com/whohas/whohas.html 

Click on the link below to grab my deck:

I Have, Who Has? Base-Ten

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Another Math Printable

Power Towers Label
(click to download file in google docs)

Here's a little label to jazz up the containers you use to store the cups for your "power towers" center.  What are "power towers"?  Head on over to www.teachertipster.com and check out the video about them. I started using this idea for a math center last week and it has quickly become a class favorite for practicing math facts. They seriously L-O-V-E it. One of my toughest little kiddos even begged me to have this activity be his "daily reward" for good behavior -- usually it's 5 free minutes on the computer at the end of the day.

On the video he suggests using pringles cans, but I had an empty container (from sugar-free kool-aid) laying around that worked out perfectly. The small size dixie cups fit great and it takes up less space. One other modification I made was to write the answer to the problem inside the top rim of each cup, so they can check their answer before adding the cup to the stack. If they get one wrong they have to put it back on the bottom of the stack.