Saturday, December 1, 2012

Number Sense

The piece of student work that I would like to analyze for this week is not artifactual because most of the work we do in kindergarten is large group discussion with some sort of tactile or kinesthetic option.  I played a game called "Monster Squeeze" with my kindergarteners and each of them had number cards zero through twenty and I used velcro "monsters" on a number line, asking them to find a number between those two numbers or a number that was bigger or smaller.  I could tell a lot about my students' number sense and if their thinking was actually centered on which numbers were larger than others or if they understood numbers as a memorized sequence.  For example, one of my students Hayley, told me that 17 was larger than 18 and that a number between 4 and 10 was 2.  I will reteach this lesson using some way to conceptualize the meaning of each number against the number line with objects.

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