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Dot Bingo

Guest blogger: Bilge Cerezci

Welcome to week three! Hope you had fun playing the matching dot games. Do you see dots
everywhere now? Get ready for another dot-filled week!

For this week’s activity we are going to reinvent the game of bingo. Again, we will not be using
symbolic representation of numbers. Instead, we will be representing numbers with dots to
deepen your child’s number sense.

Traditionally, bingo is played with the numbers one through seventy-five. However, for this
game, we will be using numbers one through six. There are several reasons behind this. One of
the reasons is that young children need several experiences working with small sets of numbers
in order to truly understand what those numbers represent in terms of quantity. Introducing only
numbers one through six affords that kind of rich experience we are after. Second, subtilizing is
intuitive and in order to use this skill, we need to provide small set of numbers rather than large
ones. This way, children will use this skill to perfect their understanding of numbers and what
they represent mathematically rather than symbolically.

With this game you will need a printer, dice, and bingo counters.

Please click the link BINGO TEMPLATE below to download the printable template:
BINGO TEMPLATE

Once you have downloaded the template, print as many copies as you need (one per player).
The object of the game is simple, the first person to get five squares in a row covered, wins. You
can do this horizontally, diagonally, or vertically. Each person takes a turn rolling the dice. When
the number on the dice is shown, the person who rolled must find a square on their chart that has
the same number and cover it with a bingo counter. Each player takes a turn until one of the
players gets five squares covered in a row.

Bingo!

Bilge Cerezci

Bilge Cerezci began her career as an educator in Turkey. After earning a bachelor of science degree in early childhood education from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, she nurtured the development of young minds as a teacher in Turkish preschools. Cerezci moved to Chicago in 2007 to pursue graduate studies at the Erikson Institute and completed her master’s degree in child development with an infancy specialization in 2009. She was awarded her PhD in applied child development from Loyola University Chicago and the Erikson Institute in 2017. During her doctoral studies, Cerezci worked for the Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative, which was launched in 2007 to enhance the quality of early math education by helping preschool and early elementary school teachers incorporate effective early math instruction into their classrooms. Her work for the Early Math Collaborative focused on the refinement of a new tool designed to measure the quality of mathematics instruction in preschools and elementary schools. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Child Development Department of the City Colleges of Chicago and the Teacher Education Department at Loyola University. Dr. Cerezci now resides in New York City, where she shares her knowledge and insights with the next generation of educators as an assistant professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at St. John’s University.

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