Counting Math Games with Play-Doh and Cheerios | How to Count | Basic Counting Skills for Kids

Counting Math Games with Play-Doh and Cheerios | How to Count | Basic Counting Skills for Kids

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How to count? Counting skills are very important for children at the early age when they are still taking the very first steps related to math because it is important that when the kids are moving to complete operations, they should have the counting skills in place first.

This educational video is about practical and interactive ways that would show how to count and help them do that easily. Some of these practical ways are even done without costing any money through tools that are already found at home. In this lesson, these tools include play-doh, spaghetti sticks and cheerios, and off the child could go and start counting.

Playing this game starts with the basic counting skills and this means that you will ask the child to count four different cheerios and place them in the spaghetti stick. Translating the number into objects is important because it shows that kids really understand and link between the written numbers and the amount of objects placed.

Getting a little bit interactive, parents should start a challenging game with their kids and use a dice to play in turn and see who will end up being the winner, the kid or the parent. First, let the kid throw the dice and place the number he/she receives of cheerios in the spaghetti stick, and then let the parent take the turn and do the same, the one who ends up with a bigger number will be the winner.

Using a little bit of basic addition will also help the child to learn math and this would also be done through the same tools. Ask the child to place the number of cheerios that would solve the equation of 1 + 1 and make the numbers bigger if the kids could handle and solve it all. Parents could also insert several equations in the same game, such as asking the child to add 4 to the 2 he/she got the last time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdux-Xn35qE).

Along teaching the kids these initial and basic addition and counting skills, there are some small details in the middle of the way that parents should pay attention to, such as choosing the suitable dice, if the kids are familiar with the numbers then using the dice with written numbers would be a good choice, but if the kids are not yet familiar with all the numbers then using the dice with the dots would be better and they could then count the dots and keep playing.

There are different math games that could teach kids basic counting skills with using play doh or cheerios, and all of them will bring us all to the same point, which is bringing different fun and interactive methods that the kids could enjoy and thus learn faster and easier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I0FdpAigpU).

The ordinary ways that parents might use in general could become a little bit boring for the kids with time and that's why they should be always updating themselves and using tools that could be scattered all around the house, because that's what homeschooling is all about and that's when they will go for these toys and tools which they already have at home and which the kids love to play with and use in general.

At the end of this lesson, parents could give some treats to their kids if they managed to give the right answers, and since they are playing with cheerios then their treat could be cheerios as well, they could eat the number of cheerios they get as the final answer to their last equation, if they are learning to subtract they could eat the cheerios that should be removed to make the equation correct, and so on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-YBC4LPOQw).

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