Contact UsUnderstanding Numbers 6-10: Key Learning Strategies to Build a Strong Foundation of Number Sense
Understanding numbers 6-10 is a critical step in a child’s journey toward strengthening number sense and mathematical fluency. Developing a conceptual understanding of numbers involves hands-on activities, academic vocabulary, fine motor skills, interactive lessons, and visual support. In this post, we’ll explore key strategies involved in learning numbers 6-10, including counting, cardinality, and a strong foundation of number sense.
Understanding Numbers 6-10: Key Learning Strategies to Build a Strong Foundation of Number Sense
As children progress from learning smaller numbers to understanding numbers 6-10, there are key learning strategies to build a strong foundation of number sense. At this stage, students learn how to connect numbers with quantities.
Academic vocabulary and math strategies play an essential role in fostering mathematical communication. When children can express their thoughts and procedures in math, it opens opportunities to connect the learning exactly where it is needed most.
Explicitly introducing math vocabulary and math strategies as a part of the lessons connects math learning to academic language and procedures as one cohesive relationship. Moreover, including these words and procedures as part of the daily math lessons about numbers 6-10 adds opportunities for modeling and communicating understanding. As a result, students directly connect elevated academic language and procedures with the math content as it is being taught.
Interactive and Engaging Number Lessons
Another key learning strategy to build a strong foundation of number sense is providing interactive, visual, and engaging ways to work with numbers 6-10. Guiding students through a full participation model with immediate communication and feedback on the learning in a supportive math community is the goal for each lesson. Additionally, interactive teaching slides and life-size math models, brings together conceptual and pictorial understanding.
Hands-On Activities for Counting and Cardinality
Learning through play is one of the most effective strategies to build a strong foundation of number sense. In addition, incorporating hands-on activities where students count, sort, or organize numbers 6-10 builds meaning for the student most authentically and naturally.
Daily hands-on practice of numbers 6-10 is a key strategy of learning. Further, engaging students in these tasks ensures students build a solid foundation of understanding when the unit is complete.
Written Work to Reinforce Numbers 6-10
In contrast to hands-on activities, written work reinforces number sense in structured tasks. For example, students draw, color, and find quantities to demonstrate understanding.
Providing worksheets that combine visual cues with number writing allows students to practice fine motor skills while strengthening number sense.
Similarly, the students have the opportunity to organize thinking and keep a record of key learning. Below, students are working on applying the learning from the lesson at two different stations. The application station is an independent practice activity. The learning log is a station where students complete tasks for their math journal.
Math Reflections on Numbers 6-10 to Close out the Learning
Teaching numbers 6-10 with a focus on conceptual understanding, fine motor skills, academic vocabulary, and number sense provides a strong foundation of number sense. As we wind down the learning each day, offer a math reflection. By integrating a discussion as closure to the learning, students have 180 opportunities to share and listen to math understanding and connections. The impact this small instructional procedure has on student learning can not be overstated. Reflection fosters deep comprehension and confidence in our students.
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Kindergarten Total Math Curriculum
Understanding numbers 6-10 is the focus of unit 3 of the Total Math Curriculum for kindergarten. To see previous and future units you can click the images and links below.
