Fine Motor Threading. Counting and Sorting Lid Post Box. Bottle Top Match and Count Game. Sort and Count Bottles. Matchsticks and Play Dough. Paper Plate Number Spinner. Play Dough Counting Mats. Handprint Number Line. Number Pebbles. Counting with Pine Cones. These are just the counting activities we have tried. And here is our Maths Play pinterest board to keep up to date with everything else I find and love from around the web too!
Comments Great ideas! I really like the Maths investigation area. Wow, excellent activities!! One of the best ways to develop these understandings, or number sense, is through handling objects and counting them. We can listen to preschoolers recite numbers in order, but we want them to apply that to counting objects and understand that those numbers represent quantities of items.
These ideas can help you build math and counting skills with preschoolers. These 40 preschool math games include counting games and various number activities. They are perfect to help build counting skills and math skills in your preschoolers and kindergarten students. Dog Bone Counting Game Pre-K Pages — This is a fun, hands-on counting game for students in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Printable Counting Book Pre-K Pages — Identifying and naming numbers can be a difficult skill for young children in preschool and kindergarten.
Homemade Counting Board Game Pre-K Pages — This homemade game can help preschoolers develop math concepts while playing a game together. Penguin Counting Game Pre-K Pages — This Penguin Counting Game is the perfect addition to any winter theme , lots of fun for young children and great practice for counting, number sense, and one-to-one correspondence.
Ocean Theme Counting Activity Pre-K Pages — The best preschool activities allow children to be interactive and hands on while they explore new concepts.
Digital Counting Activities Using Google Slides Teaching Mama — This resource has digital counting activities, which is perfect for the preschool and kindergarten age. Button Counting Busy Toddler — Grab a deck of cards for this fun button counting math activity. Ladybug Busy Bag Preschool Inspirations — Work on counting with your preschoolers with these adorable paper ladybugs.
Cookie Counting Game Still Playing School — Have your kids practice counting chocolate chips with these paper chocolate chip cookies. These can become a part of your repertoire, and usually the more children play a game the better they become at it. I'm a preschool and early years teacher of ten years experience, and I also run practical training courses for nurseries and schools.
A transporting schema is an interest in carrying Orientation schemas are when children are interested in learning about how objects look from different angles. Do you have a child that enjoys lying with their head on the floor as they play with Skip to content Children really enjoy fun math circle games, and they develop lots of skills during them that they can then transfer and apply in their play and in their lives.
Some of the best math circle games use puppets, songs, or simple props to bring them to life. The Games 1. Fishing for numbers What you need for this are some number flashcards. Numbers numbers all around This is quite possibly my favourite math circle time game.
Then you all sing the song that goes: Numbers numbers all around! All around! Numbers numbers all around! What have found? Counting to an instrument Get an instrument like a drum or tambourine, and simply hit is slowly a number of times.
Giving the answer verbally for younger children is fine. Counting with a puppet Puppets are fantastic for a range of math games and strategies.
To summarise, puppets can help you count in a range of ways. Some of the most important are: Counting past ten Counting on from a given number not one Counting backwards Counting backwards from a given number Missing number problems 5. Counting songs with number bags These are one of the most effective math circle times. Quiz Quiz Trade This is a game of cooperation. It is good to play for number recognition or counting. Try to do as many partners as you can.
Pass the number round the circle This is a good number recognition game, and is good for more skilful children that know lots of numbers, as well as being possible for children who know much fewer numbers. Count round the circle This is good for laying the foundations for counting on from a given number. An extension to this game is to try to count backwards around the circle.
Count with a partner This is similar to the last game, and again is a good one for beginning to learn how to count on from a given number. Zoom Zoom Zoom song This is my favourite learning to count backwards activity.
Repeat that process until you have five astronauts in the middle of the circle. Blast off! Everyone pretends to blast off into space. Parachute math games Using parachutes is one of the best ways of developing cooperation skills and teamwork in the early years, and they are also fantastic for math. Repeat for different children and other numbers.
Counting in different voices Children really love this simple game. You simple roll the dice and count in whatever voice you roll. Actions to a number For this I use two dice. Roll both. You will get something like 3 and hopping. Hop three times!
Then repeat. An excellent game for counting actions, which is a very different skill to counting objects. Skywriting numbers in air Put some pumping music on, and get the children to stand up! Dancing numbers! For this I roll a numbers dice. For example, you may get a three. Then roll the dice again. Repeat the routine for the different number.
Matching numbers Have matching pairs of number flashcards and one odd one out. Give out the flashcards. However, one child will be by themselves. They are the champion! Counting stick activities Counting sticks are probably the best introduction to a number line.
I like to use a homemade counting stick with Velcro stuck onto a broomhandle. Boo game This is one of the very simplest, but most enjoyable math games. Put the cards back into the bag and repeat again.
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