Math - 10 Fish Game

This afternoon, the children and I played a math game, which introduced the act of subtracting. Here, we started by counting and confirming that we had ten fish on the paper. 

Then, one child would hide some fish underneath the blue paper while everyone else hid their eyes. The question was "how many fish went under the paper?"

"I am ready!"

The third step would be counting how many fish was left on top of the paper. Once we knew the number of the fish left on the paper, we could open up our little hands to count with our ten fingers. Bending down our fingers one by one, we would know how many fish went under the paper.

Of course, we lift the paper up to check if we get it right!

What a fun way to encourage the children to count and to introduce subtraction!