In this activity, students explore number decomposition and the powers of two. They play a number guessing game, and by the presence or absence of the secret number on each of six cards, the number can be found. An applet has the computer play the trick with the learner. The Teachers' Notes page offers rationale, suggestions for implementation, discussion questions, and ideas for support and extension.

This simple game with 5 variations develops place value understanding and strategic thinking. It is played on paper with a 6- or 9-sided die (printable pdf game sheet included). Two players take turns rolling a die and placing the resulting number in one of their four cells, representing the places of a 4-digit number. In the basic version the player who creates the larger number wins. Variations include aiming for the smaller number or a predetermined target number, using a decimal point, placing numbers in an opponent's cells, and several scoring options. Teachers' Notes include suggestions for introducing the game, support suggestions, and a link to a more challenging extension (Dicey Operations, cataloged separately).

This number after bingo activity increases student flexibility with the number sequence and their ability to start counting sequences at various points.

This number line up activitiy gets students out of their seats and helps reinforce the counting sequence.

This activity is played in pairs and gives students practice reading numbers out loud and tracing them.

This game game supports students in counting forward and can be adjusted to support backward counting.

Child(ren) will decorate a person that resembles themselves; practice and learn their phone number, address, age and birthdate. 

This is a choral counting activity that can be easily adjusted as students learn higher numbers.

Nurturing creativity with students helps them develop skills needed for lifelong, active learning. In this video, you’ll learn how to engage students in creative learning activities using iPad built-in features like Camera to capture images, and Markup to personify an object or highlight historical clues. Students can bring these objects together using Pages for a writing assignment, or Numbers to create a science report, and easily add audio recordings, drawings, and more.

This activity can be played by pairs of students to support writing numbers.

In this number tracing activity students create a rainbow number line. This can be a colorful tool with a personal connection to the student that may be used as a reference. It can serve as a visual and motor reminder when reading and writing numbers because the student went through the tracing motion.

This version of Go Fish allows students to practice recognizing and saying the teen numbers.

This card game reinforces counting forward and backward within 20. It can be played by 2-6 players with six sets of cards numbered 1 to 20 (printable download included). The object of the game is to build up six stacks in the middle of the table, face up, in order from 1 at the bottom to 20 on the top. Each player in turn plays cards, according to specified rules, onto opponents' face-up piles or onto a center stack until no more plays are possible. The first player to get rid of all his/her cards is the winner. The game could also be played with ordinary playing cards.