Welcome to Math Monday
Most primary students love to work with dominoes! Their eyes light up as soon as the dominoes come out and they can't wait to get started.
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rtners, especially, are fascinated and love to count the dots. They will place dominoes end to end across the table to see how many it will take to stretch across the table. They will stack them and build with them. They may line-up just a few or many dominoes one after the other to watch them cascade down the path they so painstakingly set up. It can be an exercise in patience for many students.
rtners, especially, are fascinated and love to count the dots. They will place dominoes end to end across the table to see how many it will take to stretch across the table. They will stack them and build with them. They may line-up just a few or many dominoes one after the other to watch them cascade down the path they so painstakingly set up. It can be an exercise in patience for many students.
Counting the dots on dominoes is a great beginning. Later add in some addition problems by counting the dots on one side of the domino then the other and add them together. For example, 5+1=__ and 5+5=___ . In this video from Mr. Stahl's Kindergarten class, the students are counting the dots or pips on dominoes while they play Domino Parking. An extension of this activity using a recording page will give students practice in creating and recording number sentences with the dominoes.
Mr. Stahl's Kindergarten Class
KinderDoodles offers a free Domino Parking Lot along with a recording sheet at their Teachers Pay Teachers website.
Over at First Grade School Box, Mrs. Berg shares a free template for a Domino Parking lot along with a recording sheet. This activity would be great as individual work or with teams of two students.
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| Domino Parking Lot Template |
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| Domino Recording Sheet Template |
Older students love to work with dominoes, too. There is just something about dominoes that intrigues. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and working with fractions may all be done with dominoes. For fractions, look at a domino vertically with dots at the top and bottom rather than viewing from left to right. One domino may have a 1 at the top and a 5 at the bottom while another domino may have a 2 at the top and a 5 at the bottom for: 1/5 + 2/5 = 3/5.
One of my favorite blogs, Upper Elementary Snapshots has free for ten Math games working with dominoes. From basic to more challenging, games include even/odd sort, prime/composite sort, coordinating pairs, and ordering fractions.
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| From Upper Elementary Snapshots |
For additional work with dominoes, students may build with and measure the times, learn about perimeters, area, depth, and volume. Here are some additional links for Math games using dominoes for the classroom.
What's more fun than playing, building, or working with dominoes? Watching videos with dominoes, of course! Here is a just for fun video featuring an Amazing Triple Spiral that took 25 hours to build and uses 15,000 dominoes. Can you come up with at least three math questions related to this domino spiral?
Thank you for visiting, Tricia
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