Savvy Subitizing Activity

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Ratuki: https://amzn.to/2LX6qMr

Savvy Subitizing Cards free download (to make your own set): buildmathminds.com/freebies/

Pre-made sets of Savvy Subitizing Cards for purchase: buildmathminds.com/product/savvy-subitizing-cards/

I love playing Ratuki® with my 6 YO, it is a great subitizing activity, but I wish the amounts shown on the cards went up higher and included some additional visuals.  So I developed my own set of cards that have six different representations of each number 1-10.  Each number, 1 through 10, is represented with tally marks, a rekenrek, ten frame, dot pattern, the written numeral, and a finger pattern.

Watch the video above of us playing the game Savvy Subitizing.

These visuals allow kids to instantly recognize (i.e. Subitize) amounts.  This subitizing activity is fast paced so it forces kids to use the patterns to quickly identify the amount on each card.

 

The game Savvy Subitizing that I play with this deck of cards is a subitizing activity which builds students’ Spatial Relationships around numbers, but also develops the other number sense relationships of One/Two More or Less, plus, many of the cards encourage students to use the Benchmarks of 5 & 10.

You can purchase decks of Savvy Subitizing cards HERE.