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21 Skip Counting Activities and Ideas For Elementary Math Students

Skip counting is an important skill, one that leads kids naturally into multiplication. Kids can learn to skip count by rote, but they’ll get more value from seeing how the concept relates to real-life math. Try these activities and ideas to help make it happen!

1. Sing some skip counting songs.

Mr. R has so many skip counting songs! They’re much more fun that simply chanting, “five, ten, fifteen, twenty…” Find them all here.

2. Read a skip counting book.

Teach across the curriculum with one or more of these cute picture books that incorporate skip counting as part of the story.

  • 100th Day Worries
  • Spunky Monkeys on Parade
  • One Hundred Angry Ants
  • One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab
  • Two Ways to Count to Ten

3.

Turn sentence strips into a wall chart.

Such an easy way to make a colorful wall chart! (Need sentence strips? Try this well-reviewed set from Amazon.)

Learn more: This Reading Mama

4. Group objects to introduce the concept.

Pre-schoolers and kindergarteners start learning this skill by grouping objects. Get free printable pages to use with this activity at the link.

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5. Skip count with handprints.

Use your students’ handprints to demonstrate counting by 5s and 10s. So cute!

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6. Play skip counting hopscotch.

This is a classic skip counting activity. Start out simply by just labeling the blocks by 2s or 5s. Mix things up by adding some choices to make along the way.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

7.

Lace plates as you count.

This activity is easy to set up, and kids can even flip over the plates to check their answers! Learn how to make them at the link.

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8. Solve a skip counting maze.

Navigate a maze to practice skip counting. Get free printables at the link below.

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9. Count and connect the dots.

Skip counting connect-the-dots are very popular, and you can find plenty available online. Try these free examples first—your class is sure to love them!

Learn more: Worksheets Site

10. Use paper clips on a paper plate.

We bet you have leftover paper plates from the lacing activity, so pair them up with paper clips for another idea that also provides fine motor practice.

Learn more: Creative Family Fun

11. Introduce some movement.

Rather just reciting numbers, get kids up and moving while they skip count! (See more active math ideas here. )

Learn more: Teaching With Terhune

12. Make skip counting art.

This idea combines grouping with pointillism, the technique of making art from tiny dots. All you need are cotton swabs and poster paint.

Learn more: Creative Family Fun

13. Grab a handful of LEGO bricks.

Who doesn’t love using LEGOs in the classroom? The various brick sizes are ideal for talking about skip counting.

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14. Fill cups with blocks.

You can also use LEGOs with this one, or pull out your Unifix blocks. Kids build stacks and fill the cups.

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15. Put wood craft sticks in order.

Wood craft sticks have so many uses in the classroom. Label them with numbers and use them for counting practice! You can also have kids draw a single stick and practice counting upwards from that number. (Grab these colorful craft sticks from Amazon here. )

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16. Put some money on the line.

Nickels and dimes make great skip count tools, and kids will get money practice too.

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17. Roll the skip counting dice.

Have kids roll dice to see what number they’ll be counting by. This gives practice all the way up to counting by 12s.

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18. Clip clothespins to a measuring tape.

Such an easy activity to set up—all you need are clothespins and a measuring tape!

Learn more: Thriving STEM

19. Craft skip counting kites.

This free printable craft idea makes kites with skip counting tails. Hang them in your classroom when you’re done!

Learn more: Kindergarten Worksheets and Games

20. Put together a skip counting puzzle.

The puzzles prompt kids if they need some help, buy they’re really secretly getting some counting practice.

Learn more: Life Over Cs

21. Make number posters.

You can buy a set of these cute numbers at the link below, or break your kids into groups and have them cut out and label their own for display.

Learn more: A Blog From the Pond

Ten frames are a terrific tool for teaching skip counting. Find 10 Frame Activities and Ideas here.

Incorporate more math into reading time with these 17 Picture Books About Math.

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Games with counting sticks for the development and education of children

Children, especially at preschool age, are very inquisitive. The task of adults is to help them cognize the world not only with the help of toys, natural phenomena, specific household items, but also with the help of abstract teaching aids, one of which are ordinary counting sticks.

The use of counting sticks in the mathematical development of preschool children

It is a mistake to think that with the help of these improvised means you can teach a child to count, and nothing more. Their task in the capable hands of parents is to develop children's thinking, namely:

  1. They help learn colors, add and study geometric shapes, construct intricate castles, and solve logic problems. Therefore, counting sticks can be an excellent teaching aid when organizing homework.
  2. With this simple and multifunctional manual, you can study the order of numbers and their composition, the concepts of "shorter-longer", "greater-less", "higher-lower".
  3. It is also worth listening to the opinion of psychologists who simply insist that, along with fine motor skills, games and activities with these counting elements help to develop in a preschooler:
    • intelligence;
    • independence;
    • imagination and creative thinking;
    • attention;
    • interest in research and learning;
    • activity;
    • the will to win;
    • purposefulness;
    • persistence;
    • independence;
    • ability to plan, control and evaluate own activities;
    • concentration.

Ways to use the didactic aid in the fun of toddlers

It is very easy to involve a toddler in work with sticks. The main thing is to be interested! The most familiar and main activity for children from 2 to 6 years old is a game. It is in the form of a game that you need to conduct classes, coming up with an interesting plot and even distributing roles. Set the rules from the very beginning and let the little one understand the ultimate goal of the game. It can be anything, depending on what you need to teach in games with sticks. For example, fold a figure out of sticks or arrange them by color in separate boxes, lay out a name or count how many counting elements a house consists of. Thus, at home, counting sticks will become an excellent didactic game.

Important! Interest in the correct solution of the set task stimulates the child to active brain activity and overcoming difficulties in the work begun. The kid will especially try if someone else does the same work next to him - children love to compete and show the will to win.

Stick games for the little ones (9 months +)

When and how to organize didactic games with counting sticks at home? Experts emphasize: at an early age, when kids are just starting their journey to learning objects, counting sticks can be used as a game material, learn colors with their help, design figures of various sizes and shapes, and use them in non-standard drawing.

Starting age for counting sticks is 9 months. The kid already knows how to grab objects with two fingers - forefinger and thumb, which means that it's time to develop fine motor skills of the hands. The following can be an excellent exercise for this:

  • Take a small box or case, cut an oblong slot in them with a knife or scissors, and show the little one that you can put sticks into it one at a time. Toddlers will do an excellent job with the task, because at this age they really like to push objects through holes.
  • We sculpt a hedgehog from dough and offer the little one, under the strict guidance of mother, to stick sticks like needles. Such an action is still difficult for a baby, so mother's hand will become an extension of the child's hand.

Important! Small children must not be left unsupervised when performing tasks with small parts. Indeed, in addition to the hole in the box, the child can, without hesitation, send one of the counting elements into his mouth.

What can be offered to a baby aged 1 to 1.5 years

1. Young children are already capable of learning concepts such as color, size, length. Therefore, armed with a didactic (training) manual, it's time to offer them such games with sticks :

  • Name the color of all available sticks.
  • Collect elements of a certain color.
  • Find sticks with the same length (Kuizener sticks).
  • Collect one stick of each color.
  • Find the shortest and longest stick and name their colors (Kuizener sticks).
  • Arrange the sticks in a row, alternating two colors, eg yellow and red.
  • Choose any stick and ask the child to the left of it to lay out all the sticks that are shorter than the selected one, and to the right - all those that are longer. You can make it easier to solve the puzzle by asking leading questions. For example, show two sticks and ask if they are different or the same. You can complicate the question of how they differ from each other (color, length) or what is their similarity.

2. At an early age, children begin to be interested in and learn about the properties of plasticine. Therefore plasticine modeling for children can be both an activity and a game with counting sticks. Sticks in this case are auxiliary material: to play the role of a stem for a flower, legs for a fungus or a trunk for a tree; serve as legs-handles for a plasticine man or a chimney for a house.

3. Similarly, you can organize non-standard drawing with sticks for kids. For example, laying out various objects (road, cars, houses, flowers, men and animals) on the floor or table, you can create whole pictures and toy cities. Such an activity will surely arouse the interest of an inquisitive kid, will develop imagination, will make you feel not only a member, but also the creator of an exciting game.

Didactic games from 2 to 4 years old

During this period, preschool children make a significant breakthrough in the field of self-knowledge and intelligence development. There is a formation of speech, contact with peers is easily established, the baby acts purposefully. He is interested in drawing, designing, which are increasingly based on children's imagination. It's time to channel these abilities in the right direction and deepen the knowledge about the purpose of counting sticks. Suitable for this will be the following games with sticks, which are widely used in kindergarten.

Where is less?

Place the counting sticks opposite each other in two rows, one of which will have one fewer number of counting sticks. The preschooler must show which row has fewer elements and which has more. They complicate the puzzle with the question: “What needs to be done so that the number of sticks becomes the same?”.

Task with an asterisk: ask the child to independently lay out two rows with the same number of elements, and so that there are one or two less of them in one row.

Repeat drawing

You will need a sheet of paper with an image of an object understandable to the child (a house, sweets, butterflies, Christmas trees, etc.), made in two or three colors. The kid should lay out this drawing with chopsticks, repeating the colors on paper. At the end, ask the preschooler to name the colors with which he created his picture.

This exercise helps to learn colors, develop fine motor skills of children's fingers, as well as creative imagination.

Building and counting

An adult lays out some simple figure from the didactic material, for example, a triangle, and asks the student to repeat it. After the kid copes with the task, you need to voice the name of the figure and ask him how many elements were needed to build this triangle.

Next, you can build a square, a rhombus, a rectangle, as well as any other objects with the same conditions of the problem. For deeper knowledge, you can ask what geometric figure the roof of a house, a window, a truck body, etc., looks like.

The task with an asterisk is to ask an adult to divide a rectangle of 6 sticks into two equal squares using one. Or with one stick turn a square into two triangles.

The purpose of this game exercise is to develop spatial, logical and creative thinking in children.

Games for older preschoolers

Classes with children aged 5-7 involve more thorough preparation for their schooling. This will require not only perseverance, but also basic knowledge in the field of reading and mathematics, the ability to generalize, highlight, compare. Of course, you can not strain the child with any tasks, because everything you need will be taught at school in due time. But if a preschooler has an interest in learning, he should not be denied self-development. Using sticks for counting, you can invite him to perform the following exercises according to ready-made schemes. This is how games with counting sticks are played in kindergarten.

Complete the picture

It is necessary to show the child a diagram-drawing of half of an object depicted on paper. The task is to complete the picture symmetrically, using the same colors and proportions.

Draw numbers and letters

Use chopsticks to lay out the names of letters (if it comes easy, then simple words), as well as numbers within ten. With good success, you can do it at speed with one of your peers.

What numbers are made of

When a preschooler already knows what the numbers look like, you can offer him to lay out each one with the help of sticks of two colors, thereby giving the concept of the composition of the number. So, the number 5 can be laid out from two red and three green sticks or from one yellow and four red ones.

Count!

Easy option: use sticks to lay out an example (as an option, two sticks + three sticks). The child must be asked to count and give the correct answer by laying out the required number of elements after the equal sign. If the kid knows the numbers, then you can lay out the expression with their help.

Psychologists recommend

  1. Parents themselves determine the age at which children should be involved in activities with a set of counting sticks. But experts still recommend not to load the baby's brain too early. It is optimal to start classes at about three years of age.
  2. At first, it is worth giving the baby to get acquainted with the didactic material - let him play, put figures, pyramids. So it will be easier for a small student to study the shape and color of the parts, to feel the material from which they are made. Only in this way will children be able to conclude that some sticks are shorter than others, to catch their color differences.
  3. The beginning of classes must be made playful - the child should not feel pressure from adults, otherwise in the future he will develop an aversion to mathematics. The kid must come to all the conclusions and answers himself - it is independent thinking that will make his knowledge strong and durable. So say experts in the field of pedagogy.

Science has proven that the development of a child's speech and mental activity directly depends on the fine motor skills of the hands. With the training of fingers, the hand of the future student is preparing for writing. Therefore, it is extremely important to help him in this with the help of educational games, which include games with counting sticks. They are a simple and at the same time a universal tool for developing hands and stimulating intellectual abilities at the same time.

Counting sticks are easy to use. To show concern for the development of the mental abilities of a preschooler, parents do not need to reinvent the wheel. After all, everything ingenious is simple.

1257 places for enrolling first -graders to Barnaul schools are still free Barnaul :: Official website of the city

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July 11, 2022, 13:19

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In the schools of Barnaul, the admission campaign for admission to the first grades continues. This was reported during the operational meeting by Natalia Mikhalchuk, deputy chairman of the committee on education of the regional capital.

By September 1, it is planned to enroll more than 10 thousand first-graders in the city's schools. For them, 10.5 thousand places are determined.
As of July 8, there are 1257 free places for enrollment, including about 450 of them in the Industrial District of the city. The admission of students to the first grades in fifteen schools of the city (No. 22, 27, 40, 42, 55, 98, 99, 121, 122, 125, 133, 135, 136, 137, Sigma).

On June 30, the acceptance of applications for future first graders who have the right of priority admission (military, police, UFSIN, Ministry of Emergency Situations) and priority admission (brothers and sisters of those children who are already studying), as well as those living in the assigned territory, ended. From July 6, the acceptance of applications for education in the first grade of children who do not live in the assigned territory began; This phase will last until September 5th.

According to the results of the first stage, 8466 people were enrolled in the first classes, while 325 people from 8 schools in the city have been denied admission at the place of residence. The reason was the large number of beneficiaries who applied in individual schools, as well as the number of children with temporary registration. As emphasized by the representative of the city committee on education, all those who were refused were offered places in the nearest schools to choose from.

Natalia Mikhalchuk:

“An additional 305 places have been opened for children who did not get into schools by registration in nearby schools. In addition, by the beginning of the admission campaign, 360 additional places were opened at the expense of the city budget in the schools of the Industrial District.

As a result, out of 325 first-graders who were rejected, 269 people are currently enrolled in schools. These children will go to the first grades in nearby schools, as well as other educational organizations - taking into account the wishes of their parents. Another 56 applications are pending.

In the second stage, 777 people were enrolled to study in the first classes. The number of applications in the status of "New" and "Consideration of documents" is 532.

Vyacheslav Frank instructed to keep the issue under daily special control, to conduct individual work with parents.

“It is important that every future first-grader is provided with a place in the school,” said the head of the city.

Also during the operational meeting, they discussed the preparation of the city economy for the next heating season, the weekly results of the work of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Barnaul, the operational situation in the city, a review of legislation and major events, and citizens' messages.

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