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Gumball math mats

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Last week I created these colorful counting mats so my Three could do some gumball math as we learned about letter G.

Print these fun gumball math mats for practice with counting and one-to-one correspondence!

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I created ten gumball math mats, each with a number printed on the bottom.  Then I put the matching number of gray circles inside the machine.

Print these fun gumball math mats for practice with counting and one-to-one correspondence!

For each mat, he read the number and counted the clear plastic counters as he placed them on the gray dots.  This was great practice in one-to-one correspondence!

Print these fun gumball math mats for practice with counting and one-to-one correspondence!

He wanted to use all orange circles when counting six gumballs.

Print these fun gumball math mats for practice with counting and one-to-one correspondence!

As you can see, this kept us busy for quite some time!

Print these fun gumball math mats for practice with counting and one-to-one correspondence!

I also made this version of the activity. If your child has one-to-one correspondence down, but could use practice counting out a certain number of objects, print this version.  It has cards all the way up 20!  Just print the last two pages of the download.

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29 Comments

  1. Kathleen

    June 27, 2022 at 12:52 am

    Hi,
    I have printed this before in my previous school. I have moved and I know that your resources are very helpful. Sadly, I couldn’t find the link to printing it. Will you please help me. Thank you so much

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      June 27, 2022 at 9:20 pm

      You should see it now!

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  2. SUÉLEN

    August 18, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    BOA TARDE !
    GOSTEI MUITO DESSA ATIVIDADE MAS NÃO ESTOU CONSEGUINDO IMPRIMIR .
    DESDE JÁ OBRIGADA .

    Reply to this comment
  3. Leanne Cameron

    April 21, 2020 at 9:21 am

    I love all your fun easy and educational games. Thank you so much for making our lives easier as teachers to make learning fun and engaging !

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    • Aarti

      July 20, 2020 at 6:45 am

      It’s very useful dear. Thanks a lot for wonderful material….hats off to your hard work…

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  4. Pamela Simpson

    February 24, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    I really want the gumball counting mats but I can’t download them.

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    • Kate Dowling

      February 24, 2020 at 10:33 pm

      Hi Pamela!
      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. What happens when you click the green download box? If it’s not clickable, you need to turn off your ad blocker. Once you click the box, please enter your email address, and the file will be sent to you. Let us know if you still have trouble!

      Reply to this comment
  5. Mari

    February 2, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Thanks so much for the resource. i will greatly help one of my students and others to come.

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    • Mari

      February 2, 2020 at 7:27 pm

      Thanks so much for the resource. It will greatly help one of my students and others to come.

      Reply to this comment
  6. Rashmi

    February 17, 2017 at 9:00 am

    Hi Anna,

    These are really good, I help some slow learning children and they really love playing these games and are learning too. Thank you so much !!

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 18, 2017 at 6:38 am

      I’m so glad to hear that, Rashmi!

      Reply to this comment
  7. Fabby

    November 26, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    I just love your website and all the activities, links, worksheets and advice you share. I am so thankful that you share so much. This is my first year teaching and you have helped me tremendously!!!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      November 28, 2016 at 11:24 am

      That’s so wonderful to hear, Fabby! Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know. 🙂

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  8. Elena

    September 25, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Thaknk you very much for sharing these printables!
    Iam teaching preschooler this year and going through your blog, help me a lot. good resources and ideas for the little hands.

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    • Anna Geiger

      September 29, 2016 at 11:46 am

      You’re very welcome, Elena!

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  9. Khattarin

    September 9, 2016 at 10:00 am

    I am a kindergarten teacher . In Thailand. Thank you very much . That makes learning fun . It was wonderful, thank you very much . ^^

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    • Anna Geiger

      September 11, 2016 at 8:30 pm

      I’m so glad you could use this, Khattarin!

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  10. Tania

    June 28, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    Hi!

    I’m having trouble printing the gumball mats, when I click to open the file it says it can’t be opened.

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    • Anna Geiger

      July 2, 2016 at 1:31 pm

      Try these tips! One of them usually works. https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-download-free-files/

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  11. Stephany

    September 13, 2015 at 5:06 pm

    I love these gumball mats. I always struggle for ways to use the colored disc manipulatives in my room and most of the time they just become bingo markers, but as soon as I rolled out the gumball mats there was a whole new use for them and the students were so excited to be able to use the colored chips during math time!

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    • Anna Geiger

      September 21, 2015 at 11:04 am

      Yay – I’m so glad these went over well with your students, Stephany!

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  12. Jeanine

    March 23, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    Thank you for sharing these with us Anna, theyre useful and so good looking too! My daughter is actually having problems with some math comprehension lately. She’s almost six, so she’s done well with counting to twenty part but, she’s having issues with addition. I would like to use the pages with 10 & 20 grey spots, so I can practise “Making Ten” & “making twenty” with her in regards to addition and such. What do you think? Do you think it would work that way? I like the idea of her seeing the grey spaces, you know, counting or adding with the chips might be easier to see this way! Thanks again!

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 29, 2015 at 5:24 pm

      Hello, Jeanine!

      You might have noticed that the printable mats only go up to 10 … that’s actually because there wasn’t room to put 20 gray dots in the little mats. I think you could take the large mat and draw 20 circles in it if you want. Then you could give her two different colors of playing pieces (those clear plastic circles we used are a lot of fun).

      You could make different combinations and keep track on a piece of paper… Have her start with the 10 mat and keep track of the different combinations. For example, you can have 1 yellow and 9 blue, so 1+9 = 10. Or you could have 2 yellow and 8 blue, so 2+8 = 10.

      Another easy manipulative for this concept is an egg carton. Just cut off two spots and you have a very simple ten frame.

      Hope this made sense!

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  13. Maggie

    March 23, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Love these! Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 29, 2015 at 5:20 pm

      You’re welcome, Maggie!

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  14. Erin

    March 23, 2015 at 2:08 am

    Fun, fun! Thank you for sharing! I love the modification at the end!!

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 29, 2015 at 5:20 pm

      You’re welcome, Erin! 🙂

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