Counting and Adding Unit Cubes

Counting by tens out loud, flip charts, and blocks, sounds like a perfect 1st grade lesson. The class practices counting by tens using blocks, they add ten blocks at a time and use a flip digit chart to aid in numerical recognition. The...

Support young mathematicians with building a strong foundational number-sense using this series of printable Unifix® cube strips. Adaptable to the teaching of a variety of different concepts, from basic counting and cardinality, to...

Class members drill and practice counting skills from 1 to 20. They count along with a puppet and when the puppet makes a mistake, they correct it. In pairs, they connect cubes to make a train and count the number used. On the last of...

Who doesn't love playing with marbles? These, along with cubes and other manipulatives, are used to determine the volume of objects. These non-standard units of measure. help the class determine the length, width, and height of various...

Beginning counters will get great practice with this quick activity. In partners or individually, learners turn over a number card onto their "Count On Two More" game board (included). Then, they count out the correct number of units...

Images of base ten blocks are used to reinforce counting past 10. Learners will count along, adding units to each 10 as they go from 10 to 30.  Each number is shown on a 100 block, as blocks of 10s and 1s, and in numeric form as tens and...

Build on your learners' confidence in quick addition as they discover strategies to add tens to two-digit numbers. After reviewing counting by 10's, they discuss tactics to add multiples of 10 to other numbers. They visualize how to...

In this lower elementary worksheet, students count the unit cubes in vertical addition problems, and write the sum on the blank line. They fill in the line that is labeled with the words, "Answer =. They complete 6 problems.

In this unit cube activity, learners solve 3 different problems that contain various parts to each of them. First, they write as many 3-digit numbers as they can given the numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7. Then, students count how many unit cubes...

Establish 1:1 correspondence by counting students, first one gender, then the other. Give each child a colored cube (one color for boys, another for girls) and have small groups determine more or less and how many all together. As a...