Young Mathematicians Classroom Kit: Fingers & Counters Games with MiniBooks - English

Children will love playing these simple, interactive math games using their fingers and counters! Playing with concrete representations helps children develop a strong understanding of early number concepts, from counting and cardinality to composing and decomposing numbers, building an important foundation for addition and subtraction.

As children show numbers on their fingers, copy groups of dots, compare quantities, and figure out how many are hiding, they strengthen their number knowledge and learn to visualize quantities in their minds. The games also encourage children to explain their thinking, try different strategies, solve problems, and learn with others. Best of all, many of the games can be played almost anywhere using just fingers or simple objects as counters.

The kit includes the following 8 games:

• Game 1: Numbers, Numbers, 1, 2, 3
• Game 2: Counting Together
• Game 3: Copy My Dots
• Game 4: Number Clap
• Game 5: Make 5! with Fingers
• Game 6: More, Less, Same with Fingers
• Game 7: How Many Are Hiding? with Fingers
• Game 8: How Many Are Hiding? with Counters

Also included in the kit are Math Minibooks that extend the learning through short problem-solving stories and play-along activities. Each minibook ends with a game or activity related to the games in the kit, helping adults and children continue meaningful conversations about math at school or at home.

A comprehensive Teacher Guide describes the research and mathematics behind the games and minibooks and provides easy-to-follow directions. QR codes link to videos demonstrating how to play each game and explaining the mathematics children are learning.

EDC’s Young Mathematicians games are designed to be fun, spark conversations about math, and provide rich learning opportunities while promoting persistence, problem-solving and puzzling skills, and social-emotional learning.

This turnkey Classroom Kit accommodates up to 20 students and contains everything needed to start playing right away. Also available in Spanish.