missing numbers – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:57:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Missing Numbers https://earlymathcounts.org/missing-numbers/ https://earlymathcounts.org/missing-numbers/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:00:35 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=929 On Monday, I had the pleasure of watching one of my student teachers complete a lesson plan about missing numbers with the children in her classroom.  She was very well-prepared by creating worksheets with large numbers written in circles with several numbers  missing.  She then had stickers with the missing numbers on them.

I didn’t notice at first, but very lightly on each circle was a faint outline of the number that should be there.  This clue really helped some of the younger children because it became a matching game, rather than a number recognition activity.

These three pictures show one child trying to match the numbers.  For me, the most fascinating thing that I saw was the way she split the 1 and the 0 from the 10 sticker and put the number 1 in the 1 spot, and the 0 in the 0 spot on the number 10.  She then took the number 1 and put it in the 10’s place on the 10 spot.  She worked really hard getting her stickers on the page.  I loved that she recognized the 1 and the 0, but clearly didn’t get that the 1 and the 0 together made a 10.

This website has a missing number game that would be a great addition to a missing number activity.

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