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Kindergarten Daily 3 Math Notebooks

I teach in a class with k- grade 9 students. I give my little ones some visual prompts and they need to answer by drawing pictures that show more or less, bigger or smaller. We do a lot of talking ahead of time about what numbers look like, hands on work making numbers with manipulatives, ways to count, including tally marks and sets, so when they move into Math Writing they have an idea how to represent numbers. I have also had them cut pictures out of advertisements to use creating number sto…