Have your children count birthday candles onto their cake game mat to practice counting with 1:1 correspondence and establishing the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
They will roll a standard dice and count the candles.
- keep rolling and adding more candles to begin early addition concepts
- start with 20 on the cake and take each roll off, establishing and understanding of the take-away concept for subtraction
- have students play in pairs and ask them to compare numbers - lining up the candles if needed for direct comparison of numbers (who has most/least - which number is bigger/smaller)
This game is in my Numbers to 10 Ultimate Pack and includes a math craft too!