Quick Images are fun, engaging routines that we can use with students of ALL AGES. The Quick Images math routine helps students develop mental imagery, improve spatial memory, and learn to analyze images. It encourages students to recognize quantities quickly, without counting, and to think about numbers in different ways, including through composing and decomposing. This routine is particularly helpful in building multiplicative thinking by focusing on units and groups of units.
In this Quick Images video example from PCS Teaching in a kindergarten classroom, the teacher models how to use a string of Quick Images that purposefully build on each other.
In this Quick Images video example from the University of Washington, we see how a teacher can use questioning techniques to understand students thinking as well as the importance of connecting written numbers and equations to the image.
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Great news! We’ve done the hard work for you! We have created engaging and mathematically rich Quick Images Google slides that have accompanying question slides, helpful tips for facilitation, step by step directions, and 834 slides. You will receive 163 UNIQUE Quick Images perfect to use for students of in grades K-3 for a whole year. The categories included are: dots, 5 frames, 1 row Rekenrek, 10 frames, double 10 frames, 2 row Rekenrek, 100 chart, and pictures. This set of slides is great for teachers, homeschool parents, math coaches, administrators, and student teachers. The Quick Images are shared via google docs and can be displayed in power point format on an interactive whiteboard. Additionally, the Quick Images can be printed on paper and displayed or shown on a laptop. Using Quick Images with students promotes subitizing. Subitizing, the ability to instantly recognize the number of objects in a small group without counting, offers several key benefits for mathematical development.
