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Use this free printable Valentines tally marks cards as a preschool or kindergarten math center to help your students develop their number sense and learn subitizing with tally marks. These clip cards are a great, hands-on way to practice counting by 5’s, counting on and working on fine motor a bit as well!
Other Printable Valentines Centers and Worksheets
1) Valentines Worksheets Pack – 50 pages of free Valentine’s themed printable worksheets for kids. Includes a variety of literacy, math and fine motor activities.
2) Valentines Alphabet Clip Strips – Combine letter recognition and fine motor practice in this fun Valentines themed activity.
3) Valentines Alphabet Match – Match the upper and lowercase letters.
4) Valentines Literacy and Math Themed Centers – Get your kids excited for Valentines with these 10 literacy and math centers perfect for pre-k to 1st grade.
Setting Up Your Valentines Tally Marks Cards
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Prepping these tally mark clip cards is a fairly quick and simple task.
Just print out the sheets, laminate them to keep them sturdy and cut them into individual cards. Laminating ensures durability, will save you from having to print them often and keeps them from getting bent under the weight of the clothespins. Set up your Valentines math center with a bowl of clothespins and you’re ready so start subitizing!
Printable Valentine Number Sense Activity
As a mom of 2 trying to find fun ways to help her kids understand number sense, I’ve had to do some research into the world of early years education. Along the way, I’ve learned a few interesting new words and ‘subitize’ is one of them. Subitize basically means being able to identify a number when represented in a different way. This might be in tally marks, dominoes, dice, finger counting, etc.
These Valentines tally mark cards can also be used to encourage your students to count by fives once you get to the bigger numbers. In fact, they’ll have to switch between counting by fives and then counting on by ones, making it even more of s challenge! For example, 18 would be “5,10,15…16,17,18.”
To make the cards self-correcting, you could mark the correct answers with a dot or sticker on the back. This way, your little one just needs to flip it over and you can have some time to do other things. They will love that extra independence!
More Valentines Themed Activities
Pair this printable Valentines number sense activity with my pack of 10 Valentines Themed Literacy and Math Centers. It’ll save you hours creating your own games and it’s perfect for preschool to 1st-grade students.
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