How to Put Together This Christmas Math Activity
I placed numbers on several brown cookie shape cutout I made by tracing the outline of cookie cutters. I then outlined the shapes with white crayon to create a frosting like edge. Several paper cut outs were made of each shape. I placed a set of tally marks on one of each shape. Various numbers were placed on the remaining cutouts of that shape. Only one of the numbers matched the one with the tall marks.
We placed foil on a old cookie tray and the matching started. It look a little bit of time to sort through the numbers. Once the number cookies had been laid out, he quickly matched them.
JDaniel is now five and in kindergarten. Young children would probably have found this more challenging. What he and I both worked on with this activity verbally explaining why the numbers matched. I just love to hear how he explains things. He was able to explain how each stick represents a part of the number. The total number of sticks equals the whole numberWhen we had finished matching cookies, I had him put them in number order from the biggest number to the smallest. Then we arranged the numbers in reverse.
The number cookies with both numeral and tally mark displays could be used in many other ways.
- Sort even and odd numbers
- Create addition sentences
- Create subtraction sentences
- Play “I Spy The Number”
- Show me the number before
- Show me the number after
You will find this Christmas math activity and many more on my Early Learning Math board on Pinterest.
How else could I use these number cookies?
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Virginia doesn’t use common core so I don’t know much about it. Your activity makes math more fun!
This is a great activity to explain math in a fun way!
I like that idea. I will be using it with my children as well. Thank you.
Cute! I love using cookie cutters for art. Scarlet is just starting to talk about math and add and subtract in her head. It blows my mind because I never thought of myself as very math-oriented although I certainly used it well enough when I had to use it for school.
You make the best activities for kids Deirdre!!
What a cool idea!