1. Go!
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2. Classroom Kit Includes:
• Teacher’s Edition lesson plans
• Teacher’s Resource Masters
• Games & spinners
• 6 types of Number Lines
• Worksheets
• Progress trackers
• Certificate
• Parent letters
• Leveled card decks 1-12
• 4 Teacher Number Lines
• 1 Teacher Number Line Marker
• 25 student wooden number
lines with sliding bead
• 150 foamies
• 122 game pieces
• A 100’s classroom chart
• Classroom management box
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3. SUBITIZE
(from the Latin word “subitus” meaning sudden)
To suddenly or instantly know how many.
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4. How many dots?
Watch carefully, on the next
slide you will see some dots.
Try to remember how many
dots you see!
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5. How many dots?
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6. How many dots?
Watch carefully, on the next
slide you will see some dots.
Try to remember how many
dots you see!
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7. How many dots?
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8. Designed Learning
Counting
Progression
to
Subitizing
to
Number Combinations
to
Understanding
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9. Subitizing Flash Cards – Levels
1-12
GO Cards
In the
Classroom
• Each math levels build
subitizing skills
• Each level builds on prior
learning
• Students learn
perceptual and conception
subitizing
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10. Students Progress with Flash
Card From…Finger Counting
Practice
to
Subitizing 2, 3 & 4
to
Subitizing 4 and adding 1
to
Subitizing 5
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11. Dr. Ken Newbury Demonstrates
Subitizing Flash Cards
Click on box to play video
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12. Number Combinations
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13. KENS Flash Cards Teach
Number Combinations
Show Cards
In the
Classroom
• Use markers to fill in
circle number line on
laminated cards
• Visualize a number line
• Use foamies to represent
the number combination
on the card
• Each level builds on prior
learning
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14. Show & Tell Cards
Show Cards
• Students represent math
concepts on paper and with
physical objects
Tell Cards
• Reinforce quick recall of
math concepts and math facts
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15. Number Lines
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16. Brain research strongly suggests
that we have an innate sense of
number that includes a mental
number line.
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Geary, Bailey & Hoard
(2009) demonstrate that
the ability to show a
number on a number line
was the best predictor of
math achievement in 3rd
grade.
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17. Using a KENS Math paper
number line or wooden number
line, mark where you think “17”
“goes”:
Scale: 0-20
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18. What did you need to know to
place your line at position “17”?
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Where the ‘middle’ is
What is the value of the middle?
What number comes before and after?
Number magnitude
Scale:
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0-20
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19. Using a paper number line or a
KENS Math number line, mark
where you think “35” number
“goes”:
Scale: 0-100
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20. What strategy did you use to
locate “35”?
35
Scale: 0-100
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21. Scaffolded Number Lines Guide
Learning
Student number lines for
individual student use
In the
Classroom
• Use wooden number lines
with or without paper
number line
• Kit includes paper number
lines with and without
numbers
• Paper number lines
increase in difficulty as
students progress –
10’s, 20’s, etc.
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22. Math Games Reinforce Number
Sense
• Research shows math
achievement correlates
to the number of board games
a child plays
• Research-based math games
are designed to
sequentially
build number
sense
• More than 20 math games in
KENS Math – instructions,
printables & game pieces
• Ideal for free time, centers or
sending home
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23. Diagnostic & Prescriptive
• Assessment – provides tools to pre-assess
number sense skill
• Monitoring – assess and chart progress at
each level
• Leveled Learning - is designed for
individualized, leveled instruction
• Diverse Learners - addresses the needs of
diverse learners
• Flexibility – supports a variety of teaching styles
& learning environments
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24. KENS Math Assessment
In the
Classroom
• Assess each student
individually
• Ask “How many dots in
each row?”
• Give each student an
average of 30 seconds to
do the test
• Complete 10 rows of dots
(2 assessment sheets)
Download free
assessment tool at
• Included in the TRM
http://www.kensmath.com/parent-teacher-math-resources/math-assessment-te
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25. KENS Math Assessment
Test helps teachers:
1) Assess number sense skills
2) Determine the ideal starting level for each
student
3) Identify which students require increased
number sense practice & skill building
4) Assess progress in the program
Action research in the classroom showed:
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Errors on the assessment predicted 90% of students who had
difficulties with calculation fluency.
One year later, students who made more than 1 error were not on
target at the end of first grade.
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26. Monitoring
• KENS Math facilitates math
interventions and ongoing
progress monitoring
• 3 basic steps to using KENS
Math as an Response to
Intervention (RTI) program:
– Establish baseline levels
– Design the intervention & set
learning goals
– Monitor progress
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27. Leveled Learning
The KENS Math program supports the 3 core
number sense skills with:
1. Step-by-step, lesson plans for each level 1-12
2. Leveled Go, Show & Tell Cards 1-12
3. Manipulatives that support each
of the number sense practices
4. Printable worksheets, games,
math mats & more!
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28. lexible Educational Platform
• Traditional classroomteacher directed
• Center-based
• Peer-to-peer
• Small group/Guided Math
Centerbased
Classroom
• Parent supported
• Intervention & RTI
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29. This is
your brain.
This is your
brain on KENS
Math.
Any Questions?
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