How to Teach Kids Numbers

Video Transcript

"The most basic of math after colors and shapes to teach is number identification up to 10 to start with and counting. You'll find that's one of the most fun activities that children do as they go around the house and count things and have them pick up anything that you have more than one of and have your child count and write the number on a piece of paper. Make a chart like this and have the children identify by name each number. Start by counting but then go out of order after they learn the rule. So when you point to that they're not going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. They should just look at that and know that that's 7. Another cool thing to do is when you have a chart like this, is you can add dots to represent what each of these numbers means and you can even show how the dots makes shapes. Use the sequence you find on dice or dominoes, is always fun and it also teaches them how 4 makes a square just like a square has 4 corners. You can buy some dominoes and/or find some and that's another fun way to teach math with dominoes. You can make dominoes. Just get some card stock, some heavy paper, cut out some rectangles and make yourself some dominoes. It's also good when you go a little bit further on or you can even start now to teach them the idea of odds and evens. All of the evens is even, I can place something on here and it wouldn't fall, but this is odd, if I put a pencil on there it would fall off. If these were real objects. And dots are neat too because they can count the dots. That's 10 and I can point to each dot and count the 10 dots. "