Math Sorts is a printable resource with 45 puzzle-style activities for early childhood and special education: 15 addition/subtraction sorts, 15 time sorts with analog and digital clocks, and 15 money sorts using different coin images. Students match equivalent values and record answers on worksheets.
I kind of did a play on some of our— what we do for spelling is that we do a lot of word sorts, and I made some math sorts, which I'm really, really excited about. Included in this resource are 3 different types of math sorts. There's addition/subtraction, money, and time. So these are meant to do as puzzles. So you'll see from the photos here is students will put all of the pieces in line in the order they go. So for the addition/subtraction, you'll put all of the ones that equal 6, 10, 10, and 3 all in a row lined up like here. And then if they're doing this independently, they can write it on the worksheet so you can kind of check their work after, or if you're doing this as a teacher-directed task, you can kind of just help them as they go. Um, so included in each set is a label so you can label the baggie like this. Um, I think that's really important because it helps keeping everything really organized. Um, there's 15 of each types of set, so there's 45 different sorts included, so you're really getting a lot in this packet. So kind of here's the different sorts. So here's the label and the pieces. You can either print on cardstock or laminate. I'm gonna laminate these because I want them to be a little sturdier. So here's all the addition/subtraction. So you'll do all the facts that add up to each number. This is a great way to really generalize and make sure this skill is truly, truly mastered because this is pretty tricky to kind of do it that opposite way. Next are the time sorts. So I talk on my website a lot about multiple exemplars, how we really need to make sure we're not teaching just with one set of stimuli, that we're not using only this certain clock face, that we're using lots of different ones. And this is a perfect way to work on skill generalization. So we have all different kinds of clocks, and that you have to know that whether the clock arrows are like this or like this or a digital clock, they all equal the same time. So this is done the same way. Here's the label for the baggie and the pieces. They'll put all the clocks together, and then you can— and have them on this sheet. Either draw the pictures of the clocks or just write the time in to get a little bit of extra practice. So here's all the times. I sorted them out by levels, so I did some just by the hour, some by the half hour, and then some by the 5-minute marks. So there's a bunch of different types of levels of difficulty within the time set. So 15 different ones of those. And last is the money one. Um, this is such a critical life skill that we really need to make sure we're targeting directly because our kids need to go to stores and pay for things. That's something we do every day in the real world. So for the worksheet, you can have them either write the names of the coins or draw pictures, some way to show their work. And here are the different math sorts, so it's adding up to different money amounts. And because we really want them to know that a dime equals 10 cents, but also 2 nickels equal 10 cents, and that the front of the nickel is the same as the back of the nickel, and things like that. And a dirty penny and a shiny penny are both the same. So it's good to kind of have different images of coins that all still are the same value. And then the label again is on the side. So there's 15 different money ones, all with different levels of amounts, and there are some more difficult ones in here with the higher values, of course. Um, so that's it! There's 45 different math sorts. Um, will really get you through the year. These are nice tasks that are time-consuming, great for independent work, and great for math centers. This is a product preview of Math Sorts for Early Childhood or Special Education by theautismhelper.com.
