2018 Early Math Symposium
STEAM Playground Activities

All Activities~ Todas Las Actividades
Blank Labels for sorting activities
Button Sort (English and Spanish)
Caterpillar Venn Diagram/Monarch
Caterpillar Venn Diagram/Monarch (Spanish)
Cookie Sharing (English and Spanish)
Grandfather Tang’s Story Animals, broken
Grandfather Tang’s Story Animals, broken (Spanish)
Grandfather Tang’s Story Animals, solid
Grandfather Tang’s Story Animals, solid (Spanish)
Over and Over Again (Spanish)
Patterns are Everywhere (Spanish)
Lots of Groovy Buttons (Spanish)
Race to a Dollar (English and Spanish)
Twenty is (English and Spanish)
Unlucky Bean Thirteen (Spanish)
Very Hungry Caterpillar Counting and Classifying
Very Hungry Caterpillar Counting and Classifying (Spanish)
Very Hungry Caterpillar Counting and Classifying (English and Spanish
Very Hungry Caterpillar Sensory Tub
Very Hungry Caterpillar Sensory Tub (Spanish)
What Floats in a Moat? (Spanish)
Which One Doesn’t Belong? (Spanish)
Which One Doesn't Belong? (English and Spanish)



Activities by Topic ~ Actividades Por Tema
Sorting
Books:
Seeds
Sorting
Activities:
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Buttons for sorting
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Muffin Tin
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Dry Erase Marker
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Six Pairs of Socks
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Basket
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Seeds
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Sorting Tray
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Pen
Classifying
Book:
Which One Doesn’t Belong
Activities:
Patterns
Books:
Pattern Fish
The Napping House
Pattern Bugs
Activities:
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Musical Instruments
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Colored Pencils, Crayons, Paper, Stamps and Stamp Pads, Cash Register Tape
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Pictures of Fish
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Glue
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Paper
Patterns Are Everywhere (introduction)
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Bowl
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Scoop
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Goldfish crackers
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Plates
Counting
Books:
Over in the Meadow
Lyle Walks the Dogs
Baby Goes to Market
Have You Seen My Dragon
Counting Crocodiles
One Giant Pair of Underwear
One Watermelon Seed
One is a Snail Ten is a Crab
Activities:
Instructions for How Many Ways
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Abacus
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Wooden Numbers
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Chalkboard
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Chalk
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Shells
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Dominoes
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Natural objects
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Dice
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Sticks
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Containers
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Mat
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Prepare a wall chart for combinations
Geometry
Books:
Grandfather Tang’s Story
One Wolf, Three Pigs, and Seven Magic Shapes
Color Zoo
Perfect Square
Activities:
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Printer paper
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Ruler
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Scissors
Animals from Grandfather Tang’s Story
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Printer paper and origami paper
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Glue
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Scissors, hole punch, pinking shears
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Pencil
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Printer paper and origami paper
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Glue
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Scissors, hole punch, pinking shears
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Pencil
Sensory Exploration, Venn Diagrams, Compare and Contrast
Book:
Activities:
Very Hungry Caterpillar Sensory Tub
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Tub and objects to place in tub
Venn Diagram Activity – Monarch –vs- Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Copies of Venn Diagram
Addition and Subtraction
Books:
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
Activities:
Multiplication and Division
Books:
One Hundred Hungry Ants
A Remainder of One
Bean Thirteen
The Doorbell Rang
Activities:
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Geoboards
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Rubber Bands
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Rubber Ants
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Paper
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Thirty Bugs
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Colored Pencils
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Thirteen Counters
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Twelve Counters
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Paper
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Pencils, Pens, Crayons
Time
Book:
Just a Second
Activities:
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ball
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jump rope
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stop watch
Money
Book:
Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Activities:
Spatial Visualization
Books:
Me on the Map
Flotsam
Yellow Ball
Activities:
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Paint Tarp Grid
Measurement
Book:
Actual Size
Activities:
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Objects to measure
Mathematical Reasoning
Books:
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
Activities:
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Squares and Circles – laminated
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Paper
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Create a chart for solutions
Science
Buoyancy
Books:
What Floats in a Moat
Things that Float and Things that Don’t
Who Sank the Boat?
Activities:
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Container for Water
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Goat and Chicken
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Tinfoil
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Modeling Clay
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Paper
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Cork
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Craft Sticks
Engineering
Books:
If I Built a Car
A Salamander’s Room
Even An Octopus Needs a Home
Even An Ostrich Needs a Nest
A House for Hermit Crab
Activities:
Magnetism
Books:
What Makes A Magnet?
Activities:
Magnet Sensory Jars
Magnet Exploration
Seeds
Books:
Flip, Float, Fly
Activities:





