Mental Number Line to 10

Sub Trajectory: number line estimation

Uses internal images and knowledge of number relationships and mental images to determine relative size and position of numbers up to 10 or more.

Activities

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Other Examples:

  • When asked “Which number is closer to 6: 4 or 9?", a child accurately responds “4”.

Help your student become a(n) Mental Number Line to 10

Activities ask children to use their mental representation of a number path and the relation between numbers up to 10 to solve a problem such as who is older, or what number is missing in a sequence (e.g., of connecting cubes "stairs" or in a "I'm thinking of a number" game.). Visual mediators (rulers and number lists) scaffold the learning in the earlier phases.

Special Thanks To

Institute of Education Sciences
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through grant numbers R305K050157, R305A120813, R305A110188, and R305A150243. to the University of Denver. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.