As DJ began working with skip counting by 5’s, I began to think of money, particularly 5 pennies adding up to a nickel and 5 nickels adding up to a quarter. I thought I remembered seeing a money game or coin game on a blog somewhere but when I went looking I found several versions but none that were exactly what I was looking for. So I made my own! I made this template in word using Google images of…
I had intended for DJ to do more static addition to be sure he understood it but he started a problem while I was making breakfast and he misread the number. The font I used for the numbers has a little dash at the top of the 1 and he confused that with a 7. He was already beginning to combine the two sets of stamps to get his answer when I noticed it. But I shouldn’t have worried, he…
DJ is beginning to get back into the rhythm of doing school each week and he’s been doing really well writing his numbers. So I presented static addition with the stamp game. I printed a page of problems for him, making sure that none of the columns added up to more than 9. In the picture above he is working on the problem 1,521 + 3,407. He builds the first numbers with stamps, a green thousand, 5 red hundreds, 2…