Sunday, March 17, 2013

Friends of Ten

This App byLittle Monkey Apps provides activities that will introduce young mathematicians to concepts of Subitizing (recognizing a collection without counting them), counting on, more and less and combinations of numbers that equal ten. These skills are all important building blocks for mental addition and subtraction. A bonus to this App, is this companion teaching video. This video will help you get the most out of using this video with your child. Note: This App is best when you are with our child and you are guiding your child through the activities so the background information found on this video is important.






Sunday, February 24, 2013

Little Monkey App: Subitizing Flash Cards

Subtizing is the ability to automatically recognize the quantity of a small group of objects (like on a die or on a ten frame). This ability helps with addition, subtraction, counting on, counting back and automatic recall. Little Monkey Apps Subitizing Flash Cards provides students and opportunity to practice and test their subitizing knowledge to quickly recognize small groups of objects without counting. The app is designed to be used with an adult, peer work or for independent learning. A demo video may be found on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrVtynlTKI&list=PLu4-tIT5OtaVKsOyzmrnG95DqXan2AhvD
This video will help you and your student/child get the most benefit from the Subitizing Flash Cards App.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Monster Squeeze

Students learn to recognize numbers, explore number comparisons (greater than; less than) and gain number line experience as they play this partner game of elimination.

Hungry Fish

Students practice mental math (addition and subtraction), as they pinch together addends and subtrahends to equal the numbers on the fish.

Hungry Guppy



Number Lines

Children learn concepts of counting, skip counting, addition and subtraction as they explore this number line app.

NumberRack

Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children's number sense.