This is a "Teacher's Friend" product published by Scolastic. I found it at the thrift store for a dollar.
Not all of the resources in this series are useful. A lot of them are redundant or too simplistic. This one is great for a few reasons.
First off, we love identifying numbers. It's a favourite game. So a box full of foam numbers that you can match up on cards is a fantastic activity on its own.
The cards with stars to count are great right now, too, because they're organized in basic dice patterns. I'm learning a lot about teaching addition now that my daughter is working on beginner math. It's interesting to see which concepts are easy and which are difficult. She can count forwards and backwards to 10, and she can count up to 29 (Sometimes 30), but adding two numbers together makes no sense to her. She has, however, memorized that 2 plus 2 is 4, and if she sees two groups of two, she will recognize it as four objects without taking the time to count. Learning by rote and repetition has helped her understand elements of addition already, so I'm totally embracing the idea of her memorizing dice patterns and not bothering with written out math equations.
Lastly, the wipe off cards for practicing writing are fantastic. She gets so angry when she makes a mistake and can't erase it. This way there's no stress.
This is the best dollar I've ever spent.
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