Quick Teens Fact Flowers

Integrating the Quick Teens into our Fun Friday Centers was accomplished by making flowers for spring. To bring our math focus into the art of it, we decided to make flowers representing the "Quick Teens" (adding ten to a single digit number). The ten was represented by the handprints of both hands (ten fingers for the leaves of the flower). The children added a stem. The flower base was a circle. The single digit addend was represented by the petal on the flower. For example: if a child had the number 14, the equation is 10 + 4 = 14. The leaves have the ten fingers and the flower has four petals.