Printable Numberlines

Early Learning Teaching Your Child Math
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I think I am still looking for something larger so I am going to make my own tonight, but the giant number line has 3 #'s to a sheet and can go as high as you want up to 100. I want a bigger one my daughter can step on and “hop to” so I will make my own in word, but there are lots of printables for practice. \

A number line seems like it would work great for JG step 1, so that’s what I am going to use to teach my DD.

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I slapped together a numberline real quick tonight so we could use it tomorrow. I thought about buying one but I didn’t want to spend $25, especially when I read the quality is somewhat questionable (was going to order through Amazon). So, I printed off some numbers, cropped them, and then mounted to black cardstock. Then I lined them up on my floor, pulled out my trusty roll of laminating contact paper and let 'er rip, peeling off the backing and unrolling as I went. There are quite a few wrinkles and it’s no where close to a perfect job, but I don’t think DD will care and I am hoping it will add a new dimension to her math to get her solid on zero to twenty, forwards and backwards. We’re practicing frequently and getting closer.

So I am now the proud owner of a homemade numberline on my living/dining room floor. LOL If you saw the rest of my house (which resembles a small preschool) you would know it doesn’t look that out of place. lol I figure it’s temporary until she gets her counting down solid, it peels easily off of the wood laminate (which we are replacing eventually anyway in case it did damage it, no big deal) and most of it is under the rug which we’ll roll to the side to use. we’ll see how she reacts tomorrow!

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I love it! :smiley: I think it even looks nicer than the vinyl number lines I’ve been looking at online. (We’ve probably been looking at the same ones…) I am totally copying this idea! :biggrin: Thanks!!!

By the way, aside from the wooden numbers with pegs, are you doing any other activities with your little one to help her memorize the dot matrix? My daughter is just a few months older than yours and, so far, I’ve only been doing the sticker activity I mentioned before. Occasionally, I let her copy the dot patterns on blank numbers using treats. Any suggestions? She’s having trouble with the larger numbers especially 7 and 9.

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We haven’t started her re-creating the dots herself (with markers, stickers, etc) yet but will soon, I just didn’t think she was ready and I have been doing materials prep so we kind of waited to get started. So as of yet, we have only been singing our counting song (0-20 to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb and then back down again) and playing with the peg numbers. She had been having trouble correctly counting any higher past 6 with the wooden manipulatives (as in, trouble counting correctly after putting the pegs in, she would get confused and miss pegs or count some twice because there were more to deal with, versus just a few pegs on the number). However, yesterday I was happy and impressed when she put all the pegs in 7 and then successfully verbally counted each peg as she touched it. So she IS getting it after all!

I am totally going to use the sticker idea too. Genius. I will probably use the plain side of the colored laminated flashcards I already did, I need to get some dot stickers next time I am out. I also bought a bingo blotter from the Dollar Tree and photo copied the flashcards as practice sheets two to a page. One with dots, one with no dots. They will be our practice sheets. First, we will recreate the dots together on the blank #, and down the road we will connect the dots like JG suggests and then also do the bingo blotter. Later, I will take away the one with the dots and have her do it strictly from memory. This is going to take a while because she’s not yet 2 and fine motor skills are an issue but we practice fine motor activities most days (like beads on a string, etc) so they will develop in time.

I allow my DD to have quiet time in her room before bed and sit on her bed and read books and/or watch an educational DVD. When my husband was deployed last time, we make a homemade video and she LOVED to watch him read her storybooks on the video. I’ll still put it in every now and then and she is mesmerized by him on the screen. I have a theory that YBCR worked SO WELL for Aleka, Dr. Titzer’s daughter, because it was her Dad on the video, with his voice and face, etc. Therefore, there were more hooks/branches in the brain for the information to hang on, they were plentiful and strong, there were greater positive associations, etc specifically because it was her Dad. (If you are familiar with YBCR and the book Magic Trees of the Mind, then you know what I’m referring to). Don’t get me wrong, the program worked for my DD but it took a while longer and she never picked up phonics from it like Aleka.

Anyway, I was thinking about creating a math video for my DD to watch before bed sometimes, much like the crude original version of YBCR. It would very much be home video quality, I just don’t know how and need to learn. I could take many of these JG concepts and transform it into DVD format to be watched/memorized again and again. I have a friend’s husband who does video editing but I feel awkward asking. I know people make home videos with sound, animations all the time on their computers, I just don’t know how.

Topics the video could cover:
-Counting 0-20 and 20-0 using our song (fast and slow) several times throughout the video for repetition and reinforcement using the JG cards in digital format, a numberline, video of DD playing on her floor numberline, etc (so showing the numbers in a variety of ways during the song)
-Demonstrating placement of the dot matrix, video of her playing with her peg numbers
-Demonstrating greater, less than, equal, using flash cards and items (buttons, food colored pasta, toys etc)
-Addition/Subtraction

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I could make a file in LR? But DVD’s are so much more flexible in my house.

I just wish JG would make a high quality video and I wouldn’t have to! To supplement my hands on stuff of course, not replace. But like I said, maybe it will have a greater impact for DD if it’s my voice, our faces, etc, anyway.

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Wow! That would be an undertaking! I LOVE the idea though…and totally agree with you that Aleka’s success could have A LOT to do with the fact that it was her dad… My son loved the DVDs but we also haven’t had the same results as they did. Now you’ve got me thinking as to how I could make a video…hmmm…I might start small and take photos of him doing the various number activities and make a book to “sing” to him periodically throughout the day… You’ve got some fabulous ideas L & O’s Mom!

Oh, another hands-on idea I had was to cut out little felt shapes to place on large felt numbers. And, I found some number cookie cutters in my mom’s stash so we’ll bake up some cookies with mini-m&ms places strategically - I call dibs on number 9, though!

And, I am going to steal your numberline idea…I’ll just have to convince my husband to agree to where I want to put it!

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Kizudo- a book is a great idea too! In one of the Signing Time flashcard packs we do (well, used to, she knows them all now but I will use them with my son next) they give the idea that you can store the flash cards in a 4 x 6 photo album flip book instead of on the ring. I bet the $ store has them cheap. You could slip pictures in of 7 toys & 5 toys, and compare them side by side. You also have the liberty of swapping them in and out when they memorize the answers. Then you could print out words or pictures of your kid or drawings, whatever to keep it fun. Similar to LR but photo albums are double sided which would be best for greater, less than, equal. A bigger photo album would work too of course, or those plastic sleeves in a binder.

They would be math books similar to martusia’s homemade books. Her son loves them. I am not against LR or premade math counting books, but kids are more interested the closer it hits to home.

I am going to do this idea I think! I have to go tot the store today anyway, I will just pick up a few things. I might even just print them off on cards stock at home.

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Oh and I forgot to mention, my original intention with the numberline was to make it double sided laminate. I didn’t have enough laminate though and wanted to finish the project last night so I stuck it down. If it was double sided, you could tape it down when you wanted it and take it up when you were through. Might slide a little more though. It would definitely be a two person job sticking that loooooong roll of laminate together though, and I don’t know how forgiving it would be if you messed up. I don’t know if you could peel it back apart since both sides are sticky.

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Yeah…as I was reading your post about the number line I thought - “I’m going to laminate both sides so that I can move it around” but then I thought…“hmm…he might slip on it as he jumps from number to number…” I do like your idea of sticking it down…way safer and likely will be used more often than if you could put it away.

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I just went to walmart tonight and ended up picking up some magnetic strip and little round magnets. We can stick the flashcards on the fridge or on a cookie sheet and do the dot matrix that way too.

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About the number line…
I remember seeing plain coloured rubber bottomed placemats at the dollar store a while back. I’m wondering if it would work for a person to use a black marker and a steady hand to draw on the JG numerals. Then kids could run and jump on them, be able to put them out and then back again, and be a safe alternative…hmmmm…

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what about the hop scotch game with foam numbers .elc has beUTIFULwall number freeze with numbers and corresponding number of objects next to it iam going to laminate and use on the floor .