How to introduce ten frames Videos

+Mark McTernan As a teacher we try to show children MULTIPLE strategies to help them understand number concepts. Ten frames are a great tool to introduce many things, like doubles, even, odd, etc... It is definitely not a one trick pony. I hope this clears up your confusion.

+Mark McTernan Mark the goal of this activity is subitization. Subitization is the ability to instantly recognize the number of objects in a picture without counting. Most people can easily subitize to 5. Between 5 and 10 it is easier to subitize if the objects are arranged in a meaningful way - for example a ten frame. Some people can subitize much higher numbers- think RainMan. Some people are natural counters (it sounds like you are one of them). Other people have weaker number sense and perform even the simplest computations with highly inefficient counting methods. This ten frame is a scaffold to help very young children to bypass counting and instantly subitize the quantity in the picture. Because we use a base 10 number system, the 10 frame scaffold continues to be useful with addition and subtraction. It could help a child to mentally calculate 37 + 5, for example.As Andrew stated, this strategy is nothing new, although the ability to access with technology is new. The pictures from this video are taken from an interactive website. I recently read this quote "Education is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more an education than a heap of stones is a house." I absolutely agree with that quote AND I think the flip is also true. If you had to constantly go searching for stones while you were building, you'd never finish your house. Sadly, I think this is the case with math education valuing conceptual understanding at the cost of procedural fluency. I agree that memorization and the use of algorithms are highly effective skills which are essential to learning math. I hope that you will see that the goal of this activity is to assist students with memorization AND to provide meaning to the symbols they manipulate when they compute.

+david garrett Anyone that wouldn't select rote memorization and repeated algorithms over this ridiculously inefficient visual object counting is a flat out idiot, because it is fixating on one trick that may be easy to teach but is totally inefficient.  Binary computers, which can execute a billion operations a second, use lookup tables and repeatable algorithmic functions because it's the fastest way to do it and is universal in it's application, even if you have to convert the answers to a different base.  For this reason alone I would suggest it is very shortsighted to not teach children how to count like a very slow computer.This is teaching a combination of Summarian tick counting and Egyptian hieroglyphics (assuming you are modeling different powers of 10 with different symbols), to teach what?  How to count in various powers of 10.  Will that be applicable to other bases?  No?  Er.. eh.. but... -But nothing.  this is a stupid one trick pony that will render most kids unable to do even simple operations without doing a bunch of unnecessary operations in their head.  Quick kid, what's 37845 % 45?  Ok, I'll just wait to collect social security while you get down on that clay tablet.

+david garrett One cannot use a brain for ignorance. Ignorance is a lack of learning and thereby implies that you do not use your brain. something may be a more effective way of learning but it does not make the other way ignorant. It makes it outdated or old-fashioned or less effective. Learning the times tables and other memorization is not as effective, but it is not ignorant. Also, ten frame is nothing new. How many kids in the 80s or 90s used candy or other objects to simulate addition and subtraction? You rebox something and treat anyone that doesn't love it as an utter moron. This doesn't help either.

nice vid, can you tell me where you got those glass counters? ty

I can't believe kindergartners have to know this crap