Domino Practice

Materials

• Organizer board
• One set of double six dominoes
• Unifix cubes

1. Using a set of double six dominoes, direct the students to spread them out, face down.
2. Direct one child to choose one domino and to count the number of dots on one side. Tell them to take that same number of unifix cubes and to place them on the top of their organizer boards, in the left hand space.
3. Tell them to count the number of dots on the second half of the domino and place the same number of unifix cubes on the top right side of the organizer board.
4. Direct the child to state the number story. For example: two yellow cubes and (or plus) three red cubes.
5. Tell the students to combine both sets of cubes in the bottom space of their organizer boards and to state the number of cubes.
6. Tell them to now tell you the complete number story. For example: two yellow cubes and three red cubes is (or equals) five cubes all together.

   Organizer Board

   • Once several students have completed one number story on their boards, direct them to snap their number story cubes together so that each student has his or her own cube train.
   • Direct the students to campare their cube trains. Tell each student to name the total number of cubes in his or her own train and to then state if the train is more or less than their classmates' trains. Discuss how many more or less each train is from a partner's train.
   • Direct the students to arrange their cube trains in ascending order from the shortest to the tallest.

     Cube Trains

   • Direct the students to make a pattern with dominoes. Some examples are:

Domino Pattern

Direct the student to build a pattern. Suggest that they remove one domino. Ask another student to find the missing domino to complete the pattern. There are two patterns represented in this picture. Can you find them? One on the top and another on the bottom! Click here for more lessons with Dominoes

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