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Counting Board Set

Counting Board Set

SKU: 7020

$87.00 USD
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Set includes the Counting Board with number markers, block and guide, as well as a pocket-sized flip book with highlights from Experimenting with Numbers.

Grade Level: PK, K, and 1

Concepts Explored

Numbers 1-10 and Addition/Subtraction

Materials

Our products are made of heirloom quality wood and can be passed from generation to generation. Products are finished with either a clear protective coating or paint. Each coating has been stringently tested for safety and exceeds US safety standards.

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However, we are still affected by the Covid-19 supply chain issues.

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Associated Materials

COUNTING BOARD

The Counting Board allows children to fit colored blocks into grooves, so children become familiar with the structure of numbers even before they are introduced to the number names or symbols. All pieces on the Counting Board are removable, allowing the teacher to provide the appropriate level of scaffolding for students while focusing on each concept within ten.

The Counting Board is used to teach:

  • Understanding quantity
  • Sequencing
  • Counting
  • Relationships between numbers (more and less, before and after, between)
  • Number names
  • Numerals (number symbols)

Discovering Size Relationships

Children discover size relationships and the structure of numbers within ten while completing the “puzzle” of the Counting Board. Even before learning the number names, students learn to match the size of the block to its groove. They discover that each block has its place in the sequence, and they learn the meaning of bigger, biggest, smaller, smallest. An important part of this stage is helping children begin to reason about numbers, construct arguments and critique those of others with the support of concrete manipulatives. These are important early concepts that must be mastered in order to reason meaningfully about numbers.

 

Learning to Count - Identifying Blocks by Their Number Names

When being introduced to the Counting Board children progress through the same sequence as they do in learning to talk. First, meaning is developed through actions and the perception of visual relationships; then in later experiments, the number names are introduced and used to identify the blocks. The children rapidly learn the number names and associate them with quantities represented by the blocks.

 

Introducing Number Symbols 1 to 10

The number symbols from 1 to 10 are introduced by attaching the number guide to the counting board and asking the children to match the symbols on the markers with the identical symbol on the number guide.

Learning to Associate the Number Block with the Number Symbol

Children indicate their recognition by drawing a line from the block to its symbol.
(A page from Structural Arithmetic Workbook I.)