Math Stations

Here are a couple math stations we've been working on!

One of our biggest goals is to start having kids use "math talk" while playing partner games.  I made these speech bubbles so the kids could pretend to be cartoons throughout the game.  We are working on the words less and more this week.  During a game of matching towers with 1 less and 1 more than their partner's tower, the students filled in the blanks of

 " ___ is 1 more than ___."

 "___ is 1 less than ___. "

After they filled in the blank, both partners read the speech bubble! 

Another fun station we used this week is called domino islands.  I write the numbers 0-20 across the table in white board marker. We turn the numbers into islands and the dominos are the boats.  The kids add the two sides of the domino together and drive their boat to its island.