Matching Numeral and Number
An old standard
numeral/number matching project using easy materials.
Objectives
Children ages 4 ½-5 years understand number concepts to 10.
Matches numeral to number set. Cog. IIIC
they can count objects 1 through 10; answers how many Cog. IIIC
they can understand number concept up to 5, and match numerals to number
set. Cog. IIIC
Children ages 3-4 can recognize amount: 1, 2 and 3 Cog. IIIC
and understand the concept of 1 Cog. IIIC
Materials
Flash cards with
numerals 1-10; Cottage cheese tubs with numeral written on outside. Lots of
1" colored cubes.
Procedures
1. Begin by holding up flash cards and asking
kids to identify numerals (1 – 5 or, simpler, 1 - 3 in order and out of order.
2. Next put out the tubs and ask the children to count corresponding amount of
cubes into tubs. Empty tubs.
3. Then hold up the flash card as a cue for how many cubes to put into which
tub.
4. See if they can begin to recognize groups of 1, 2, 3 or 4 cubes on table
without counting.
5. To make it more challenging, use numerals and number sets up to 10. To make it
easy, use 1, 2 and 3 only. Variations
1. Have children count from 1-5 or 1-10 in English and another language. For example, see Tom and Muriel Feelings' book, Mojo Means One, for Swahili words for 1 to 10. 2. Each child has half an egg carton with numerals 1 through 6 taped in compartments and has own set of beans to play the above games with.
3. Have a younger child put one block into a specified tub.
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