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Puppy Patterns

I finished the other math game I have been working on. It is called Puppy Patterns and reinforces spatial (dot) patterns.

 If the card has a dot pattern, they have to name the number. If the card has a number, they have to build the pattern on their mat with counters.

 I also included a Text Talk card for those reading Debbie Diller's book.

If you are interested it is only $1.99 at my TPT store. The first person to guess what kind of puppy I had growing up will get a free copy of this game. :-)

Fern's Giveaway

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New Ten-Frame Game

I meant to post this yesterday but I took 6 boys ice skating and then had a pizza, ice cream, nerf gun crazy birthday sleepover at my house so I was a tad busy :-)


I finally finished my new math game Bowling 10 Frames! 

(Did you notice the play on words? I know the kids won't but I got a chuckle out of it.) 

It practices recognizing numbers using a ten-frame.

Here are a few pics.

I included # 0-20. To differentiate (or early in the year/kinder) just print out two copies of 0-10 instead.




 This game took FOREVER to make and I think I will be seeing ten-frames and red circles in my sleep for weeks!
If you are interested it is available in my TPT store.

I included a possible text talk card for those reading Debbie Diller's Math Work Stations.

Common Core Question

So I have been hearing a lot about Common Core from all my blog friends but not one word from my district. My district is very large and not very progressive.  We are currently standards-based but with our own state standards.

I see on the Common Core website that my state, California, has adopted them. I just sent an email to our curriculum director asking where our district stands on implementing these.

I noticed 2 big differences in the math from my state standards:
1. NO MONEY??? Did I miss it?
2. Fractions -we currently don't do these. I have no problem with it although I am realizing our math curriculum (Envisions) doesn't support it.

So my questions to you are:
1. Are/have you implemented Common Core? ( I am curious how behind my district is.)
2. Is it your belief that having common standards throughout the country IS going to happen, it is just a matter of time?

I personally like the idea and I am thinking it will help when I create math games, etc to keep these in mind.