Subtraction Story Math Warm Up - with Echidna

If you have the Math Kit bundle, you'll find some new Echidna Counting Cards for engaging your children number games, activities and warm ups! The set includes 6 different colors and you can use them with craft sticks or a dry erase pen.

Here is a Math Warm Up you can play to help your students with early subtraction concepts - difference, counting backwards or counting up. 

And another for becoming familiar with subtraction stories:

Echidna Spikes

• students each have an echidna and access to sticks
• tell a subtraction story and have them model it: Echidna has 6 spikes. Dingo chased him and during his run to the burrow he lost 4 of them. How many spikes does echidna have left?
• students can model this using the sticks
• children new to math stories may need to hear it several times 
• this warm up presents an ideal tome to read Wombat Stew

I hope you have fun in math today!

If you are working on subtraction with your kindergarten or first grade class you may also like:

• The Subtraction Concept math pack
• The Subtraction Problems math pack
• Comparison and Difference for Subtraction math pack