Oct 21st was Count Your Buttons Day!
Here in first grade we LOVE to celebrate holidays of all shapes and sizes.... (ha! Get it? All shapes and sizes? Just like buttons? No? Just Mrs. Perry find this funny then?) This particular holiday lends itself PERFECTLY to our current math unit: Building Numbers and Place Value. Grab some buttons! Count them as bundles of 10s and leftover 1s!
Need some ten frame mats? Link to 1 per page / 2 per page: http://www.mathwire.com/templates/tenframemat.pdf In first grade, we work with numbers up to 120, so print out a couple charts to work with. However, it would be wise to start with numbers in the teens first. Questions you can use are: "How many groups/bundles of ten do you have?" "How many leftover ones?" "When you count, do you have to count the whole mat of 10 individually or could we count by 10s?" etc....
This is a GREAT short video of the history of buttons...
Is button manufacturing more your style? Here's a video on how buttons are made.
This is a GREAT short video of the history of buttons...
Is button manufacturing more your style? Here's a video on how buttons are made.
