Tad's Number Line

This week each of the students made a number line from 1 to 100 that will go home soon. They also made a frog pointer to go with it. I encourage you to have your child use his/her number line for some math skills practice such as:

• number identification (point to random numbers you say, or have them name numbers you point to)
• identifying number families (show me the twenties family, show me the teens, etc.)
• counting forward and backward (starting at any number, not just 1 or 100) 
• skip counting (by 2s, 5s, 10s) 
• starting at numbers other than 10 and counting by 10s (start at 3 and count by tens: 3, 13, 23, 33, 43...)
• ten more/ten less (find 59. What is 10 more than 59? Find 91. What is 10 less than 91?)
• addition and subtraction (what's 45 plus 8? What's 52 minus 3?)
• rounding/estimating (point to 58. What decade number is that closest to?)
• finding the lowest and highest number in each number family