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Donut Place Value Math Center

Does everyone love donuts? They just seem to be more fun than other snack foods. And more fun, means you want it more. Which is why I created this donut place value math set. For you to have fun with your learners, while they are learning.

Donut Place Value Math Center

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I like to make learning fun. I wholeheartedly believe that kids learn more, understand more, when they are engaged and having fun. What is more fun than donuts?

Place Value Activity with Donuts

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Learning place value in math seems like an easy thing, but it can be very confusing for kids. Different columns of numbers,

This math center is great for second, third, and even fourth grade learners. Of course you also have those who do no fall into those grades and are learning place value, have fun with that too!

Students will love using base ten blocks to create the sprinkles on their donuts. Educational and fun.

Included in this set:

There are 3 differentiated response cards and challenge cards for you and your learners.

There three black and white donut templates and six different colored donut templates.
One page of 100 blocks
One page of 10 and 1 blocks

You can use colored paper such as the Astro paper to add a pop of color to your math work. I used this for the base ten blocks so the “sprinkles” were colorful.

I like to use the black and white version, and either color it myself for a little something to do while waiting television, or to have my kids color.

Donut place value - hundreds, tens, ones

Using this Donut Place Value Math Center

Write a number on the response card for your learners to show their work on their donuts, and write in what the H, T, O is in the boxes.

You’ll of course provide them with the hundreds, tens, and ones pieces that I have included.

Create the donuts and the learners show their work writing in what the H, T, O is in the boxes, and writing out the number. Two different cards sets are included.

Let them teach you.

Get creative in teaching your learners. Or, let them teach you. Kids get a kick out of teaching something. It is a great way to see how much they understand, and demonstrate their knowledge.

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein.

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Mini Donut Recipe

Maybe while you are learning place value, you might might want to make a little snack to go along with your lessons. These chocolate mini donuts are delicious!

You can find more mini donut recipes here too. They are all super popular around our house.

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Learning Fractions with Manpulatives

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Fractions. I hated fractions in school, and I was not looking forward to teaching my kids. I wanted to making learning fractions easier, and less scary for my kids. Our math curriculum is online, so I came up with some for us to use.

Learning Fractions with Manpulatives

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There are a lot of way to learn fractions and I’m not saying any of them are wrong, my middle girl can learn anything from workbooks, and it blows my mind.

The RightStart Math Manipulatives set included a fraction set, they use bars, but my oldest preferred the circle set (below) while she was learning fractions. Just the way her brain works.

Now as with everything else that I print that are going to be use as manipulatives and/or be used by more that one of my kids, I laminate it. They last longer and I don’t have to reprint, or re-cut everything.

I know you can homeschool without a laminator, but I choose not to. I love my laminator, and love thinking that I am saving trees by reusing paper this way. Even if I am using plastic to it.

Fraction Circle – Math Manipulatives for Fractions

The fraction circle manipulatives are intended to be used as manipulatives to introduce fractions up to tenths. Use the fraction circles to teach addition and subtraction using common denominators, equivalent fractions, multiplication and division of fractions, and all operations using mixed numbers.

In addition to using these as manipulatives, the fraction circles can be printed for use as references that can be glued into a math notebook.

Fraction Circles – Math Manipulatives for Fractions up to 16ths

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Fraction Circle Clip Cards

These clip cards are a great way to test students’ knowledge of recognizing fractions using a physical multiple choice system. It includes fraction forms from 1 to 5/6s.

The idea of this activity is that students work out what fraction of the image is shaded, then clip a clothespin/peg or a paperclip to what they think is the correct answer.

Fraction Circle Clip Cards – Matching Fractions – Fractions to Sixths

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Foodie Fractions – Fractions in the Kitchen

The best fraction manipulative is already in your kitchen though. Measuring spoons, and measuring cups! These are fractions that you use when you make a delicious snack, dessert or meal for your family.

Donut Fractions – Fun Math Center

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Invite your child to help in the kitchen and help you make something and watch them learn fractions while the help out. Fractions aren’t scary when you’re busy thinking about food.

8+ Math Manipulatives for Elementary Grades

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I am not a fan of math therefore I’m all about making sure my kids enjoy learning and have math manipulatives when learning. I have been buying and creating our own math manipulatives.

8+ Math Manipulatives for Elementary Grades

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After three years of teaching math, my oldest started Teaching Textbooks last year, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t need or want to use manipulatives, in fact she was my inspiration for creating a number of things this past year.

Math Cubes

I bought these for our first year, right off, before we even started school. They have been amazing for kindergarten, first, second and beyond. Plus they are great for preschoolers to play with and start counting.

Pattern Blocks

This is another one that I bought for our first year, and everyone has enjoyed play with from toddlers and on. I had found some pattern sheets online, printed and laminated them for some more fun as well as learning. They use them in our lessons as well as for fun playing and learning.

Fraction Pizzas

Learn fractions with pizza, both the kind I have listed here, and the real kind you eat afterwards as a reward for getting your math finished.

Geometric Blocks

Learning solids shapes is always easier when you child can be hands on with manipulatives. Plus kids love to play with them.

Fractions Tiles

We have fraction tiles and they made a huge difference in my kids learning fractions. Seeing how they break down and make a whole with them made it click for them.

Learning Clock

This past year, our learning clock got a lot of use as my second grader worked on learning to tell time.

Base Ten Set

This could make a the biggest difference in learning place value. Your child will actually see the difference before hundreds, tens, and ones place. It really is amazing to watch them learn when they have math manipulatives.

Wooden Abacus

For preschool and kindergarten this was a very popular counting tool for my kids. We don’t use it as much now as they prefer the cubes, but it was great for counting, and I didn’t have to worry about them losing cubes everywhere.

Angle Puzzles

I made these for my oldest last year and she loved them. They provided extra practice for angle names, and measuring angles. You can find them in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Angle Puzzles for Learning and Extra Practice

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Math requires a little more practice for some kids, and some kids just need hands on learning. My daughter needed a little more hands on practice with angles once being introduced to them in Teaching Textbooks level four which is where these angle puzzles come in.

Measuring angles Puzzles - angles puzzle

Angle Puzzles for Learning and Extra Practice

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I made these for my daughter so she could get some hands on practice, we are working on mastering skills and having confidence before moving on, along with our math curriculum. With a protractor in hand, she spent a lunch time putting the puzzles together while eating her sandwich.

One set of puzzles is simple matching the angle with their degrees, a two piece of puzzle.

The other puzzle is a three piece triangle where in you match the angle, the degree and then the type of angle that it is. Right, acute, obtuse, or a straight angle.

Angle Puzzles for Learning and Extra Practice - measuring angles puzzle

I used colorful card stock for printing our pieces and then laminated them for extra durability.

Measuring Angle Puzzles

2 sets of angle puzzles – 2 pieces and 3 piece with angle names.

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Ways you can use these angle puzzles:

As a math center activity
Quiet, independent practice
A way to practice estimating angle measures based on benchmarks (have students estimate the angle measures by matching the puzzles first, then have them check answers by measuring with a protractor)
Angle sort (after measuring and correctly solving the puzzles, have students sort them based on angle type: acute, obtuse or right)
Have fun!

Storing Your Puzzles

I bought one of these photo cases for keeping track of our smaller printables like these puzzles, as well as our clip cards, cloud counting cards, and more. This way everything is in one spot and I’m not looking around for them. Talk about angle practice on the go!

One thing I really like about the small individual cases is that if we are going somewhere like the library to do school, I can grab the individual case we need and go. Or I could grab the whole case.

Multiplication Booklets for Math Practice

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Math comes super easy for some kids, they just pick it right up while others need a little more practice. There is nothing wrong with needing a little more practice and making practice a little fun, or creative helps. These multiplication booklets are perfect for learning multiplication from the beginning.

Multiplication Booklets for Math Practice

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I have a fourth grader who has been learning multiplication over the last couple years, and she’s doing great with it, but she hasn’t memorized it. She enjoys telling me she hates multiplication even though she’s quite good at it.

I also have a second grader who has started to learn multiplication and is super eager to learn. These multiplication math books have been a great way for her to learn from the beginning.

Both of my girls lead to my making these helpful multiplication booklet for both introducing multiplication and helping with memorizing the facts from 2-12. I hope they’ll have your learners too.

Multiplication Booklets 2-12

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Teaching Multiplication Facts

Teaching multiplication to your kids can be super easy, or super frustrating. Or both. Some days it is both. Yesterday it was both. I drank a lot of coffee getting through out math lessons.

There are moments when everything is clicking along, they are understanding it easily, and loving it, loving that they are understanding their math. Those are the best. But for the other times we have hands on learning resources to help out.

How to use these Multiplication Booklets

I created these booklets to give my kids a change to practice more, and to learn! I laminated them to be able to reuse them again and again with dry erase markers.

These are great for using in math centers in both your public/private school classroom or your homeschool class. Or for extra help and practice. My kids can grab them whenever they feel like practicing.

Sometimes it takes putting the math curriculum aside and doing to something different.

Switching how you teach can make all the different. Looking a a page in a workbook could be daunting for a child who lacks confidence.

Let’s find a way to teach them and to practice skills and concepts in a less formal way.

Multiplication Bookmark Flashcards

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You might also be interested in these bookmark style multiplication cards 1-12. We have these on a ring clip for us to flip through at anytime.

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Donut Place Value Math Center

Donut Place Value Math Center

Place Value Activity with Donuts