Do you have our Skip Counting Numbers for your classroom wall? They add color personality and warmth to your classroom atmosphere but no doubt they are also helping your second and third graders with skip counting patterns.
I want to share a few more ways to use them. Teach these procedures to your students and they make a great standby math center or fast-finisher. Just pop a tub of whiteboards and pens by a mat in your learning space and students can settle there when they have finished their assigned work.
Copying the pattern
- students copy the number sequence from a number onto their board
- encourage students to say the numbers as they check them before they clear their board
Reverse it
- important for subtraction and division
- ask your students to copy the number sequences in reverse
- remind them to say the numbers before they clear their board
More, more, more
- students say the sequence of numbers on the poster
- students continue the skip counting pattern by writing what would come next
- encourage them to fill their whiteboard - how high can they go?
Model it
- make a matching array
- count with the numbers on the poster, each time making a new line on the array
Puzzle Match
- print 2 sets of the numbers
- snip the numbers into puzzle pieces
- students match the numbers to reinforce their counting
