Math Centers

Some of the math centers (that's a fancy way of saying plastic tubs and/or drawers) we have created:

• Time/ money/ measurement: thermometer, clocks with gears, measuring cups, rulers and folding yardstick and metric stick, timers, plastic money, hamemade games (clock faces to match to times, pictures of money to match to maounts, mostly made form old workbook pages), balance, scale
• Geometry: compass, protractor, set of geometric solids, Geoboards, books (Geometry and Fractions with Geoboards, Geometry Brainteasers, etc)
• Pattern blocks: pattern blocks and cards, tangrams are in here also
• Cuisenaire: wooden ones, plastic connecting ones, 50-centimeter tracks, centimer graph paper, books (Multiplication and Division with Rod Patterns and Graph Paper, etc.)
• Math games: Family Math and all of the games we made from it, RightStart math games (book and cards), various dice and card games for teaching facts, calculator
• Fractions: fraction circles and rings, fraction tiles, Math-U-See fraction manipulatives, books (Fractions in Action, etc.)
• Counting and sorting: counting bears, Funtastic Frogs and cards, peg board, felt board numbers
• Place value: Base ten blocks and activity book, Montessori place value materials
• Flash cards and drill: flash cards, triangular flash cards, Quartermile Math and Calculadders

(We don't use Math-U-See or RightStart, but I like their manipulatives.)

I wish I had invested more in these when my oldest was little. I accumulated them mostly when my second was preschool age, and she loves math.