A Hop, Skip and Jump

Part of our number lines.

Hayden is super into numbers and being a mathematician.   We are always talking about numbers and which ones are bigger and smaller.    Most recently he's wanted to practicing skip counting.   10's and 100's are some of his favorites.     And because my super active boy needs to be moving moving moving, we turned our back patio into giant number lines and practiced skip counting by racing around.

Jumping by 10's

Racing the 100's line.

Hayden was able to do most of the 10's number line verbally.  He picked the direction and location of each line.    When it came time to draw the 100's we had an awesome conversation about why the numbers needed to be further apart.   Far from the traditional straight number line of my classrooms, our 100's line will leave you a bit dizzy.

We had a ton of fun jumping, running, spinning and racing around the patio while shouting out the numbers on our line.   And at the end of it all, Hayden looks at me and says, "I love math!  I'm an excellent mathematician."   It makes my heart happy to see him loving to learn so much.