12/7/14

Subitizing with Preschoolers

Subitizing is an important math skill.  Elementary school students practice it all the time, but it is a skill that we can introduce in preschool as well.  

When you play a game with dice, and roll a 5, you don't have to count the dots to know how many there are, right?  It's the same when someone holds up 3 fingers.  You don't count them; you can just glance at the fingers and know that there are 3.  That is subitizing.  
Subitizing is the ability to visualize a number.  Another way to subitize is to use a tens frame.
Gingerbread printable
At this center, we attached gingerbread cutouts with the numbers 1-10 on them.  We added tens frames, and a muffin tin full of colored buttons with a magnetic dot on the back.  The student visits the center and adds the correct number of buttons to the tens frame.

If you'd like to try subitizing with your students, please download this free printable.  Come back to our Facebook page and let us know how it worked!
Enjoy playing and learning with your children today.
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3 comments:

  1. Vidya12/08/2014

    Visuals help children learn faster. This is how my daughter learnt 1-1 correspondence with numbers. I love the way you have created the substituting poster.

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  2. Unknown12/11/2014

    I just downloaded your free printable and can't wait to try it with our four 4 year-old children. I am now following your Tpt store too.

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  3. Miss Tina1/26/2015

    I love your ideas here! I taught The Mitten last week, and I wish I'd seen your blog first.

    Thanks!

    Miss Tina's PreK

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