The Cheerios Counting Book

Young scholars investigate counting. In this Kindergarten through first grade mathematics instructional activity, students listen to The Cheerios Counting Book and then build the numbers from zero to ten with cereal. Young scholars...

Investigate counting to 100 with kindergarteners. They count 100 Cheerios by working with a partner. Then they put the pieces in cups to help them organize and count in groups of 10. They represent various numbers such as 11 or 17 using...

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).

Students estimate the amount of M&M's and Cheerios in jars. They listen to the "The Cheerios Counting Book." They have a taste test between M&M's and Cheerios and place their opinions in graphic organizers. They write opinion...

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.