Linking Math

Nattie loves to play with her links.  She links them together and does some "patterns" with them, she sorts them by color and all that fun stuff.  I decided to add a little something to what she could do with them.  So I printed out these number cards and punched a hole in them.  Now she can look at the number and put that amount of links on the card.  It was a HUGE hit.  When she'd get frustrated she'd want to stop but I kept telling her she could do it and she did all of them!  I'm so proud of her.

The numbers with the hole punched in them.  Oh and I laminated them so maybe they'll stick around for a while.

The bin of links.  You can get these at Lakeshore.

Nattie showing us the number 4.

She was very confused at why the 0 had none on it.  This is something that I'm goign to be working on with her, the idea of 0 or nothing.

I am so glad that I did this project... it was simple to do and Nattie loves it.  I'm sure my 5 and 7 year old would get a kick out of it too.  Maybe for them I can have them do a pattern with the amount of links on each card.  If you have any other suggestions on how to use links, please comment and let me know.