Being a grandfather gives you lots of excuses to make things, whether the little one knows that they want them or not! I have been wanting to make these counting sticks for a long time. They are something I remember from my childhood and I feel they gave me a great visual understanding of counting, of the make up of numbers and how addition turns into multiplication.
Weapons of Math Instruction.
1 + 1 = 2
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4, 2 + 2 = 4, 1 + 3 =4
