Tracing and Place Value

by admin January 26, 2023

Here is a tracing page from our Pond Coloring Club that also has an interactive math component available to you. Provide a standard 6 sided die and let your students roll and trace as they practice recognizing dot patterns and counting. As they trace they can count and develop 1:1 correspondence also.

The simple circle shapes are perfect for early-writers and you can discuss size with some mathematical language of comparison as they are working: match, almost matches, does not match, large, small, curved, round, circle, same as, not the same as, almost the same as, trace, outline, edge, big, bigger, biggest, small, smaller, smallest

After tracing students can color their own page.

I'd also love to share with you an idea for extending the activity into place value and teen numbers.

2 players
each have a color assigned (here pink and orange)
the goal is to work towards tracing 10 circles to claim a fishing rod (craft stick)
the craft stick represents 10
stduents take turns to roll and trace in their color
when ten is reached they take their stick
with the remaining circles, they must roll and trace again but this time place a counter down, each representing a single unit 'one'

once all the leftover circles are traced, each students must find their own total by adding the ones they claimed to their ten
below we can see that the pink player scored 16 and the orange player 11

I hope you love these easy ways to incorporate essential skills in number with the tracing page!