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<\/a><\/p>\nOne Hundred Hungry Ants\u00a0 <\/a>written by Elinor J. Pinczes and illustrated by Bonnie Mackan is a story about one-hundred ants on their way to eat the food at a picnic.\u00a0 While traveling to the picnic one ant decides they will get there much faster if they divide into two rows of fifty.\u00a0 After walking for a short time the ant decides they should divide into four rows of twenty-five then five rows of twenty and finally ten rows of ten.\u00a0 This book is a good resource for a lesson introducing base-10 blocks Greater Estimations\u00a0<\/a> by Bruce Goldstone is a picture book that asks students to estimate how many items are in each picture.\u00a0 The beginning of the book shows rubber duck in groups of ten and all the ducks lined up in a row of one-hundred. This book also uses popcorn kernels and groups of sky divers to give students a better understanding of number sense.<\/p>\n Millions of Cats<\/a> by Wanda Gag is a story about a man who ventures out into the countryside to find a cat for his wife.\u00a0 Once there he finds hundreds and thousands of cats and decides to bring them all home.\u00a0 The cats get to his house and start to fight over which one of them is the prettiest and after all the fighting only one cat is left.\u00a0 This book is perfect for showing students how big and small numbers can be and the language is very easy to read.<\/p>\n More M&M’s Math<\/a> written by Barbara Barbieri McGrath and illustrated by Roger Glass asks students to drop the candies out of their bag and use a graph to count the number of each color they have.\u00a0 This book is excellent for teaching ordinal numbers.<\/p>\n Sir Cumference and All The King’s Tens<\/a> written by Cindy Neuschwander and illustrated by Wayne Geehan is a story about Sir Cumference and his wife Lady Di preparing to have a surprise birthday party for King Arthur.\u00a0 But things get out of hand when so many guests show up that they have trouble counting them all.\u00a0 They decide to make the guests stand in rows and columns to make the guests easier to count.\u00a0 The guests are then placed in tents with each tent representing a place value.\u00a0 This is a great book to read to students before a lesson on place value.<\/p>\n Websites for Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n Hacker’s Numbers<\/a> is a interactive online game that challenges students to make larger numbers than Hacker.\u00a0 The student must place a number in the hundreds, tens and ones.\u00a0 This game is allows students to practice place value.<\/p>\n The Cats in Line<\/a> is an online activity that asks students to identify the ordinal number of the orange cat in a line of gray cats.\u00a0 This site is good for helping students gain an understanding of ordinal numbers and their relation to a set of objects.<\/p>\n The “Less Than” Lake Maze<\/a> is a game that challenges students to help a monster cross a lake by jumping from one numbered stone to another stone with a lower number on it.\u00a0 If the students move to a larger number the monster falls in the lake.<\/p>\n Guess the Number<\/a> is a game where the students can pick a number range (i.e. one to fifty) and then guess which number the computer has selected.\u00a0 With each turn the computer tells the student higher or lower and then provides a smaller range.\u00a0 The object of the game is to see how many turns it takes the student to guess the right number.<\/p>\n Enter Your Number<\/a> is and interactive online math activity that allows students to enter any number then want that then have the computer tell them the place values of the numbers within the number.\u00a0 This site also has the option of generating a number for the student to challenge them.<\/p>\n Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n Bring It<\/a> is an awesome online resource to support instruction for teaching one-to-one correspondence and other early elementary math skills such as addition, subtraction and even skip counting.\u00a0 This activity also offers a two player mode for students working in teams.<\/p>\n
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