What’s in Your Math Center?

Welcome to part three of my “What’s in your…center?” series. Today’s edition features pictures and descriptions of my math center. If you’re just joining us, here are the ABC Center and Writing Center posts.

At the top is a picture of the entire math center and below I have included close-up pictures and listed the materials for you.

On the top shelf I have a tub of math picture books with popular titles like Mouse Count, The Button Box, and Chicka Chicka 1,2,3. To the right of the book box there is a kid friendly tape measure, followed by the Math Center Sign, and a balance scale.

Here are the materials on the first shelf from left to right:

• Teddy Bear Manipulatives
• Farm Animal Manipulatives
• Transportation Manipulatives
• Shape Puzzles {I used a plastic file folder organizer as a cheap alternative to an expensive puzzle rack, it was on clearance for $2}

The teddy bear, farm animal, and transportation manipulatives can be used in a variety of ways such as counting, sorting by color or attribute, patterning and more. I do add or swap out different thematic manipulatives for themes such as fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving etc. but these shown here are of high interest and can be used all year.

On the bottom shelf I have the following items from left to right:

• Pattern Blocks {You can find lots of free pattern block mats at Prekinders. The number mats pictured below are from HeidiSongs.
• Unifix Cubes {Great for fine motor skills, patterning, counting, and more/less activities}
• Lakeshore Counting Cakes {Great for practicing counting skills, one-to-one correspondence, and building number sense}
• Big Shape Buttons {The buttons can be sorted by color or attribute since they come in many different shapes}

What’s in your math center?

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