How to teach a kid math?
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Anonymous
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Does anyone have good resources/books on starting to teach a kid math? I’ve been teaching mine how to read but no idea how to start with math.
I know they will learn in school but I want to give them a head start. |
Anonymous
| Get some spectrum workbooks and start. Use beads, small toys, whatever you have for counting. Cooking is great for fractions |
Anonymous
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So the best thing you can do for preschoolers is show them math concepts in everyday life. My kids learned fractions by baking. 2 1/4 cups is the same amount as a 1/2. We do a lot of counting so they can easily count to 100. Then we do skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s. We do this when we are impatiently waiting at a red light "hey larlo, can you count to 100 by 10s to see if you can make it before gis light turns green?". We then do addition and subtraction -- "if I have 20 raisins and you have 7, how many do we have? Let's count them". We sort M&M's by colors and make patterns and sets. And we count everything-- stairs, trees, birds, toys.
I refuse to do a formal curriculum because I want them to understand math organically. they'll get the curriculum in school, but I want my kindergartener to be able to think through problems like "if I have 21 kids in my class and valentines come in packs of 8, how many packs so I need?" Or "if I have 1 hour for screen time and Ninja Turtles are 14 minutes long, how many episodes can I watch"? |
Anonymous
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Yep baking. Enjoy.
Teach them mulitplication tables so they know it like the back of their hand. Talk about how far a place is in the car with them make it a game. |
Anonymous
| Get "the math book big ideas simply explained" and other similar to discuss math concepts once they're old enough. Fascinating math facts surround us on an everyday basis. Awareness of these feeds children's Fascination, feeding into sustained interest in mathematical ideas. |
Anonymous
| Teach by touch and movement. So, bake with them. Double recipes, halve recipes. Buy fraction blocks and play blocks with them on the floor. Teach memorization of multiplication tables by reciting as they skip in circles around a room. Then take them with their bike to a numbered parking lot and call out multiplication problems and let them ride their bike to the answers. |
Anonymous
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Don't know how old the child is, but Kahn Academy has been fantastic for us.
https://www.khanacademy.org/ |
Anonymous
| Since it sounds like your child isn't even in school yet; why not just let them play? Kids learn through play and they also have fun. Sitting them down to teach them something is totally developmentally inappropriate for toddlers. |
Anonymous
| Let them watch Sesame Street. |
Anonymous
| Count things. White cars, black cars, red cars. How many more white cars than red cars. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| Kumon workbooks. |
Anonymous
| Counting cubes, geometric shapes (educational toy), math flash cards, math wall poster, math board games. Montessori math material ( to teach ones, tenth, hundredth and beyond). Toy money. Teach counting 1-10 then gradually move to 1-100 and beyond ( count forward then backward). Skip count by 10 then by 5 then 2 ( skip count by 5 is useful when learn to tell time from clock). Then addition within 5, gradually move to 10, 20 and beyond. Same for subtraction. Simple fraction like pizza cutting. After all these if ready you can move to multiplication table. |
Anonymous
| How old are you talking? Early preschool is one-to-one correspondence - get an abacus. Later preschool is simple addition and subtraction - we liked to do math problems with things like raisins and the treat was that you got to eat them. And agree with the above poster who had a lot of hands-on materials. Place value is one the poster missed that will be critically important for understanding multi-digit math problems later. |
Anonymous
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Talk about math and use math manipulatives (things you can hold -- can be many things) rather than worksheets at this age.
ex. blocks -- count them, divide them into groups, see how they can re-sort. like 28 blocks can be 4 groups of 7 or 2 groups of 14 etc. my son actually learned the concepts of multiplications and division this way, before schools! good old fashioned counting. i have vivid memories of counting with my very young son and seeing the "Aha" moment of going from 99 to 100, and then 999 to 1000. fractions can also be taught with any object that you can cut into pieces -- like food making 10 is a really important foundational concept when kids are starting math -- have blocks and other toys in sets of 10, and challenge your kid to make the groups (like 4+6, 3+7) |