The Power of Math

I was in total amazement this morning. I had two girls rushing into my room before school even started this morning saying they needed help with something. Of course I asked what I could do for them and they proceeded to spill out a story problem they created on the bus and wanted to know who had the correct answer!! AWESOME! The story problem they created was I am buying something for 32 cents. I pay with 1 dollar. How much change do I get? I was just thrilled that on a Monday morning they were already thinking about math. :) I had them work out the problem to figure out who was correct. It was pretty neat to see how they solved it. They started with 30 cents and took that away from 100. Then they took the 2 cents from 70 and got the answer! Pretty awesome to see 1st graders doing double digit subtraction! All the kids really seem to be enjoying and doing a FANTASTIC job in math. We are just finishing up our DIBELS testing and I couldn't be more please with the results. The kids really seem to have a good understanding of how numbers work. It is more then just memorizing the facts. They seem to really know how numbers work. Please continue to practice and work with numbers over the summer. The kids know a variety of math games to play and all you need is a deck of cards or some dice! Let me know if you would like some math game ideas or need any supplies. I can send some home for the summer! :)