Large Number Cards

Age of interest

4 ½ years

Direct aim

    • To learn the written symbols for 1, 10’s, 100’s and 1,000’s.
    • To understand the decimal system.
    • To read any number up to 9,000.

    Material

    Set of white cards with colored numbers: units in green, tens in blue, hundreds in red, thousands in green.

    First presentation in a three period Lesson

    First Period  Lesson: Isolate first card from each category.

    • “Here is one unit”
    • “This is called ‘the ten’.”
    • “This is called ‘the hundred’.”
    • “This is called ‘the thousand’”

    Second Period Lesson: Mix the cards and ask a child to find the ‘thousand’, the ‘ten’, the ‘unit’, the ‘hundred’. Vary the method used.

    Third Period Lesson: Turn the cards upside down and ask a child to turn one up and name it. Repeat this with the other three cards. (The child naming).

    Exercise One

    1. Laying the cards in sequence.
    2. Get the children to help you lay the cards in sequence.
    3. Count whilst putting them out:
      ‘one unit, two units . . .’etc.
      ‘one ten, two tens …’etc.
      ‘one hundred,two hundreds…’etc.
      ‘one thousand, two thousand . . .’etc.

    Exercise Two

    1. Lay out the cards in order on the table.
    2. Ask the child for any single numeral.
    3. Give the child a numeral and ask him to name it.
    4. Ask the child for a mixed numeral gradually leading up to a four-figure number.
    5. Put a mixed numeral on the child’s tray and ask him to name it.