Students demonstrate counting to 10 or 20. They read and discuss "The Cheerios Counting Book," match number cards to Cheerios, and create a Cheerios necklace.

Students count to 10 by using cheerios as manipulatives, identify numbers 1-10 by sight, and go to a website by using the Internet and computer keyboard (numeric) to answer questions (with help of teacher).

Explore estimation with your math class. They will estimate how many Cheerios are in a box. Then count and group 50 Cheerios on a twist tie and attach groups to represent hundreds. They then discuss and practice skip counting and revise...

Students create an individual M&M's graph based on the number of each color of candy pieces in their handful of candy. They graph the favorite color of the whole class while practicing counting and color identification.

Students use manipulative to identify the ones and tens digit in a number, use pictorial representation to identify the ones and tens digit in a number and determine the value of a number given tens and ones.

Students connect literature (story Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan) to math concepts. In these estimating and money lessons, students work with jelly beans, unifix cubes, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, to estimate and make...

Young scholars experience creating their own graphs on graph paper and the computer program "Graph Club." They approach this task by utilizing food as their primary source for the activities. In addition, they interact with their peers...

First graders practice recognizing numbers with number strips.

Numbers don't stop at 20! This instructional activity looks at the numbers beyond 20 using the book "The Cheerios Counting Book" by Barbara Barbieri McGrath. This instructional activity includes a detailed plan, links to center ideas, a...