What’s in Your Math Center?

Preschool 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.

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Math Center

Above 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.

Math Center Materials for Your Preschool, Pre-K, or Kindergarten Classroom via www.pre-kpages.com

Math Center Materials

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

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}

Math Center Materials for Your Preschool, Pre-K, or Kindergarten Classroom via www.pre-kpages.com

More Math Ideas from Pre-K Pages

Feed the Dog Number Counting Game
Building a Natural Preschool Math Center
Teaching Positional Words to Preschoolers
How to Teach Shapes with road mats
How to teach sequencing skills
Preschool Pattern Block Activities
Learning Shapes with Geoboards
Measurement Activities for Preschool

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5 thoughts on “What’s in Your Math Center?”

  1. I just re did my math center and I organized it a lot like your class. Thank you so much for posting and sharing ideas. Are you going to do what is in your science center?
    Thanks
    LaQuetha

  2. I love your ideas! These are the best looking centers I’ve ever seen. I want to share an idea. Instead of taping pictures of items directly on shelves, and baskets, tape a clear badge holder onto the shelf and simply slide in the picture. That way when it’s time to change items you can switch out the pictures in seconds. Also, you don’t have to reprint the picture the next time you want to use that item. Less waste in ink, tape, and time. Stay organized and save the picture in an index card box for later. Credit must be given to my dear friend who came up with the idea, Ashley Perales!

    Also, a question…. I noticed there are at least eight choices in the math center of things to do. What keeps the kids from getting too many tubs out and mixing them all up? I’ve been teaching for 7 years and I have always dealt with this and usually end up just putting out two or three choices at a time. Any suggestions?

    1. Hi April, I switched to the method you describe several years ago, here’s a link to that particular post: https://www.pre-kpages.com/classroom-labels/ In the beginning of the year we start with modeling how NOT to make “math soup” by mixing up all the items 🙂 Whenever they go to the math center I ask them “Are you going to make math soup?” and they giggle- but they remember not to do it!

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