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Colorful math lessons.


Numerical concepts are best learned with hands-on experience. Make math meaningful for students as they create tangible objects to color, count, calculate, and classify clas·si·fy  
tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies
1. To arrange or organize according to class or category.

2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret.
. Number operations, quantification, measurements and patterns become concrete for students as they hold and manipulate real objects. Try these colorful math lessons. Find the step-by-step instructions for each lesson at www.crayola.com/colorfullearning

Count on Your Alien Count on Your Alien is a fun matching math game that children create and play. Students design aliens with specified numbers of body parts.

Geometry in a Box

Students identify, describe, build, compare and classify geometric solid shape models. They store the 3-D models in a box designed with information about the geometric figures.

How Time Flies

Change is fascinating. Students observe and record changes that occur over time and then create books that document changes. Chronological chron·o·log·i·cal   also chron·o·log·ic
adj.
1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence.

2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology.
 sequencing, ordinal numbering The number that identifies the sequence of an item, for example, record #34. Contrast with cardinal number. , and actual time measurement skills are enhanced through this lesson which integrates literacy, math and art.

Class Color Count

People want their opinions to count! Teach students that every vote counts by holding a favorite color election. Construct graphs to present data. Then check the Color Corner of Crayola.com.

Hands Up Math

Students create, recognize and explain the meanings of various signs and symbols used in math, such as: add, subtract A relational DBMS operation that generates a third file from all the records in one file that are not in a second file. , equal, multiply and divide.

Super Sale Store Game

Painting With Math

Young children learn from playful play·ful  
adj.
1. Full of fun and high spirits; frolicsome or sportive: a playful kitten.

2.
 use of money. A pretend store or town of stores motivates students to calculate costs, price goods competitively, create change and under-stand practical uses for consumer math.

Paint by 9 number has a whole new meaning. Children work cooperatively to write numerical instructions, then classmates Classmates can refer to either:
  • Classmates.com, a social networking website.
  • Classmates (film), a 2006 Malayalam blockbuster directed by Lal Jose, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indragith, Sunil, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan, Balachandra Menon, ...
 apply counting and grouping skills to create artwork according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the numerical instructions assigned.
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