[poisonedapple]

My dd can do many things, but she can not count to 20. She will be in first grade this fall, and she should be counting to 20 at this point. We did some basic math/counting things this past year, but we did a lot more with reading, something she really wanted to learn. Shes doing great with it, not all the way there, but getting great. And now she wants to learn to count big.

How do I teach this? Any curriculum, games, ideas?

We play Mancala together all the time, which really helps, and uses logic skills too. I'm open for just about any ideas you may have to share.

 

[ABand3]

if she likes games, there are many that you could use and change the rules so counting goes up to twenty - parcheesi, sorry, trouble, chutes and ladders, etc.

if she's active count jumping rope, hoping on one foot, steps to the mailbox, a really long hopscotch, etc.

 

[TEAK's Mom]

My girls both really figured it out with board games. If your dd is reading, she might like "Uncle Wiggley.'" Mine both loved that one.

 

[chaos_pie]

What about "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom"...that is fun to look for the numbers etc... Gosh, I am sure there must be other number books (I am just blanking...Friday!!!)

For games you could make your own number cards, up to 20, and use those instead of color cards for CandyLand.

ETA: if you play mancala, she can count out her own marbles (this is how my son learned counting by twos and fives...he watched me tally marbles..faster way after soooooo many games)

 

[sunnmama]

sing them!

 

[poisonedapple]

These are great suggestions, keep 'em coming!

Have any counting songs handy? We had one to 15, and she can count there without problem, its 16 up that she messes up the order to.

 

[LilyGrace]

Have you ever seen a spindle box? (scroll down to the second activity) You can make your own with those linking desk trays from Walmart, the kind that are long and skinny for pencils. Start out with 0-9, and then you can add a second row of 10-19. Or take the same idea and use an old sheet on the ground, 0-9 on the top, 10-19, second row, and so on, bundling the skewers or pencils or whatever you use for spindles into groups of ten for the larger numbers. It's a great visual reference, because then can see that 29 is really 2-ten 9 and it's easier for them to keep it straight in their heads.

 

[Marsupialmom]

Make a number line. A big one. Count out each object for each number do it over several days. Have it up for her to see and study on her own.

 

[sunnmama]

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Originally Posted by spicensnail007 Have any counting songs handy? We had one to 15, and she can count there without problem, its 16 up that she messes up the order to.

try the alphabet tune.....it actually works pretty well up to 20. (for me, it is working if 13 is the Q note)

 

[tuffykenwell]

We used the books Chicka Chicka 123 and Curious George Counts to 100 to get across the concept and pattern of numbers. DS is 5 and he can count until he gets bored LOL.

Steph

 

[simple living mama]

Every time you set foot on some stairs, count them. Ask you child how many stairs do you think we have to go up and count together.

Start to count everything. Play with dice. Play with chocolate chips, then eat them.

Play hopscotch and jump rope games. "Cinderella kissed a fella....... how many kisses did she get..... one, two, three, four.. You'll find some cool jump rope counting games off the net.

 

[suziek]

We've always lived in apartments, so my kids learned to count with the help of an elevator (watching the dial or digital floor indicator thingy). They also play a lot of hide and seek and so learn to count to 100 playing.

Great counting books we love--anno's counting book, five trucks, 10 dots. There are many others.

Doing recipes, looking at number lines and looking at and working with 100s charts. And money. My kids loooove money. Give her (or let her earn) 20 $1 bills and let her hoard them, count them, spend them.

 

[Lisalucy]

You can get dot-to-dots up to a specific number; for example, you would want a tablet that went up to 20, but up to 10, 25, 50, or 100 is available. If you also gave her a number line (for now, a yardstick would do), she could work them on her own.

When one of my children was frustrated with counting, we started saying "...ten, one-teen, two-teen, three-teen," etc. This helped, and later on he integrated the vocabulary of "eleven, twelve," etc. on his own, naturally.

Just throwing out a couple of ideas, and hope that helps,
LL

 

[HikeYosemite]

Some fun math book resources can be found in Games with Math by Peggy Kaye, Family Math, and Trust the Children by Anna Kealoha.

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Originally Posted by spicensnail007 My dd can do many things, but she can not count to 20. She will be in first grade this fall, and she should be counting to 20 at this point. We did some basic math/counting things this past year, but we did a lot more with reading, something she really wanted to learn. Shes doing great with it, not all the way there, but getting great. And now she wants to learn to count big. How do I teach this? Any curriculum, games, ideas? We play Mancala together all the time, which really helps, and uses logic skills too. I'm open for just about any ideas you may have to share.

 

[Jessy1019]

My dd learned from hide and seek. We started counting to ten (when she was really small, obviously), then to 15, then to 20. It wasn't a big dealif she couldn't count that high, when she was the seeker -- but hearing us count up the numbers when we were seeking was great for her.

 

[poisonedapple]

This is seriously fantastic!!! I am loving these ideas!! You mamas rock!

 

[Aeress]

also sorting, counting and classifing beans, buttons, erasers (I bough a small bag of teddy bear erasers) poker chips, cotton balls etc.

take a large sheet of paper and add a graph for sorting. I leave mine blank so we can reuse it. I use post it notes to denote the colors, sizes, shapes etc

 

[guest^]

Bumping this up!

Wanted to add the luxury we have as HSers to *figure* in (pun intended!) our DC's personal interests.

My DS who just turned six this July, sees this world in terms of balls. Actually golf,baseball, and basketball.

He learned his colors when I bought a HUGE bag of golf tees of different colors! And now, he is learning grouping and counting with these. Some may scoff, but I say."Hey! This is my kid's interests, and this is a powerful tool!"

I think it is so mimportant to step back and really take a good look at who our kids are, and what they are intersted in at this moment. Never,ever, would I have imagined I would be providing golf tees to my son as a learning tool to grasp concepts of math. But this is my child. The child God gave me. I cannot just push him to fit into a curriculum. He is six! And he is....just like every other child....very unique. This is working for him, and I am okay with this-it's fun!

mp

 

[oceanbaby]

This might sound really obvious, but it worked for us in counting to 100 - my ds would sometimes get a little confused around the 70s and 80s. I was given a free bag of math manipulatives, and in there was a number chart. Basically just a grid of numbers from 1-100, 10 rows of 10. I taped it to the wall, never said a word, and I found him there several times over the next few days practicing counting to 100.