How are you teaching your child numbers? What are your favorite games to play to get them to recognize them? Have you learned through what school is doing or are you trying things your way?
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We just count a lot. Stuff like blueberries before we eat them, bath numbers, pointing out numbers on jerseys at soccer, etc.
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For us just books and Storybots videos and I guess TV (Umizoomi, Mickey Mouse clubhouse) and lots of talking and counting. LO (3.5) can basically count to 100. But I know many kids the same age who can't count to 10 accurately. There is a huge range of normal.
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@mediagirl: we started by just having her use those tracing sheets and the abc mouse app. Then once she got the hang of it. I would as her to try to write then from memory on her white board. Now she knows all her numbers and can count past 30
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In terms of recognizing the number, that was the simple part. The value was something else altogether, but I used visible examples so he could understand.
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School is handling it for the most part. My 3.5 year old can basically count indefinitely at this point. We are working on recognizing double digit numbers now, and understanding how that works. I like to just sprinkle it in to our daily lives so things like at the grocery store I'll asked her "do you see any rows that have a sign with a 4" and she'll look up and find it and then I ask her "ok, what number is in front of the 4" and she'll tell me it's a '1' and then we talk about how 1-4 is fourteen.
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She just picked it up by us counting things everyday. Number of stairs, number of grapes, etc.
Then we pointed them out when we saw them.
She's 3.5 and is figuring out addition on her own. -
@oliviaoblivia: Ditto, addition and subtraction are her new thing too. So if I tell her "you need to eat 5 more bites of dinner" she'll eat 2 and then tell me she needs to eat 3 more.
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For my 20m old, we just count lots of things. Examples: She is obsessed with stairs, so we count going up or down. She loves jumping, so we will do "1...2....3...jump!" And we have a couple books that she likes that are basically counting books ("1 cookie...2 shoes...") that have both the physical number and the quantity of whatever. But I wouldn't say I'm going out of my way to *teach* her those things -- she just randomly loves that book and the other counting things just seem natural to me?
For the older one (4y), we did similar when she was young, and I'm assuming her preschool/daycare did other age appropriate things with her in terms of identifying & writing. She actually just loves counting out loud as high as she can right now (needs help with the tens but has gone up to 120 on a car-ride home from the pool before). We also play lots of board or card games that effectively include counting and/or number recognition (candy land counting spaces, go fish recognizing what numbers she has or people are requesting, uno for matching, etc).
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