Bottle Cap Math Game Activities

My project today was to make more Bottle Cap Math sets.

If you want to read my original introduction post about my Bottle Cap math product look HERE.

This is a popular center in my classroom so I wanted to make multiple sets with the collection of caps I lugged home for summer break prep. 

First, I sorted all the different style caps and threw out the ones I didn't like. I'm picky like that.

I tried to keep the same color whites together as well as kept in mind the cap heights.

Then I broke out all my colored Sharpie pens and went to work. 

I suggest that you use different colors as much as possible to help separate sets.

Light colors like yellow and orange don't show well on the caps from my experience.

I labeled caps with a variety of numbers. Some were simply numbered 0-9 and others depending on the skill were 2 or 3 digit numbers. The best part about many of the worksheets are they are open ended and you can add more numbers or change them out as needed.

I also printed up the Bottle Cap concept worksheets and laminated them for yearly reuse.

Concepts include place value, rounding, sequencing, fractions, skip counting, probability, measuring, multiplication, and addition and subtraction

Here are game sets in action

You can get any of the sets {HERE}

Comparing Numbers

Place Value

Sequencing Before and After

Rounding

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My class thoroughly enjoyed my Bottle Cap math activities to reinforce all areas of my math curriculum.

 

I originally {blogged about the idea here} . It's easy to get started with this idea in your own classroom. Simply send home the note below and you'll get all the bottle caps you need lickety split, and then some! At some point, you might even need to turn away bottle cap donations.  I still have students asking, "Are you still collecting bottle caps?'  and I say, "Yes! Keep Em' coming"!

Bottle Cap Math Games

Over my years of teaching, I'm always thinking of how to make use of ordinary items.  "Bottle Cap Math" has been by far one of my best brainstorms in the classroom yet.  Why?  Because bottle caps are everywhere.  Ask your class to collect the caps and you have instant manipulatives! All you have to do is number them the way you want. This past summer I got busy creating 20 versatile math worksheets using bottle caps.  My worksheets include everything from patterning, skip counting, multiplication, probability, comparing numbers, fractions, place value, rounding and much more.  You have to check them out!  They are available at my {Teacher's Pay Teachers Store}.

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