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Math Cards Review

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March 1, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

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We were all very impressed with the Target Vocabulary Pictures, Set 1 from Lone Star Learning. They are brightly colored, laminated for durability, and come with a handy dandy definition card (which I stored in a safe place!). They are high quality and well worth the $29.99 price.
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These ain’t your mama’s flashcards, y’all.

These cards are versatile in the extreme. I don’t think we even touched the tip of the iceberg in all the ways we can use these cards. I look forward to getting creative and allowing my kids to have lots of fun with these over the years!

They’re for multi-age use and we prove it! My son is almost 3. My girls are 5, almost 7, and 12 years old. And I’m an adult {ahem}. We all enjoyed using these cards. The girls requested all the other sets as presents! I have no problem obliging that request.

The cards completely appeal to the visual learner. The teach math vocabulary by using a picture within the word. I am not a “math person,” by any means. These are amazingly enticing to my two highly verbal daughters and me.

Tori is the “math girl” and she really loved using these.

We used these math vocabulary cards in centers, mathbooking, and art!

I set up math centers, kind of Montessori style, on floor rugs and my kids worked on those centers for several weeks.

Here is one where Tori is placing numbers in order. The DEcreasing and INcreasing cards help her to understand this number order concept.

decreasing and increasing numbers cards
place value cards

Then, Tori sorted EVEN and ODD numbers. Look at the little white blocks on the math cards to help visualize that concept.

even and odd cards

Greater Than and Less Than cards with the symbols helping to spell out the words. We also use the alligator idea (he “eats” the number).

greater than and less than cards

And the geometry cards were perfect for Alex to sort his 3D shapes!

shapes matching cards

Liz helps her brother match the shapes all up with the cards and they counted the sides or discussed the shapes and compared/contrasted them.

matching shapes

Here, Tori matches some Montessori 4-part cards and uses the fraction card to help her remember that Denominator is Down and Numerator is North. Gotta love that alliteration!

fraction Montessori cards

Tori fills in a little fraction book with that card to help again. She’s a perfectionist and got very frustrated with herself, second guessing and getting confused by the part=numerator and whole=denominator. She understood which was down and which was north very quickly though.

fraction book

Tori plays a matching game with fractions and uses that Numerator/Denominator card again. I think she really understood the fraction concept after these activities and the mnemonic on the card! Tori narrated to me each match and which number was the numerator and which was the denominator and why.

fraction matching cards

Here is Kate working out a fraction puzzle with the Numerator/Denominator card. She got the concept really quickly. She learns very differently from Tori and doesn’t like to repeat activities once she has mastered them.

fraction puzzles

And here’s our symmetry math art project! This was loads of fun – even I did it!

Alex holds up our card teaching the concept. I gave instructions and we discussed mirror images. We looked at lovely pictures from nature earlier of symmetry in peacock spiders. Love how everything worked out for this lesson!

symmetry math card

Liz and Tori fingerpaint on one side of their papers.

symmetry finger painting

Kate concentrates to get that paint just right.

finger painting symmetry

Alex paints his picture.

painting symmetry

I folded the papers in half and carefully pulled them back apart and voilà! beautiful Rorschach-like SYMMETRY paintings!

symmetry math art

So, we cannot praise these math cards enough! They are versatile, high quality, fun, colorful…they appeal to all my different learners – right-brained, left-brained, the visual, the numbers whiz, the verbal learners, and the kinesthetic. How cool is that in a single product?

From the site: Target Vocabulary Pictures Set 1, 2 or 3 consist of math vocabulary presented visually to facilitate recall. Target Vocabulary Pictures can be purchased in 2 sizes of brightly colored, coated cards for an easy-to-display, colorful classroom presentation. 50-56 cards in each set. $29.99 for each set

Sets are not arranged by grade level. Please view sets to determine the appropriateness for your students.

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