Learn the numbers

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See and Learn Numbers is designed to help parents and educators teach children basic number skills and concepts.

See and Learn Numbers is designed to teach young children to count, to link numbers to quantity, to understand important concepts about the number system and to calculate with numbers up to 10. It also teaches early mathematical concepts important for understanding space, time and measurement - including color, size, shape, ordering, sorting and patterns.

See and Learn Numbers follows recommended, evidence-based practice in number and maths teaching for all children, with some adaptations to meet the learning needs of children with Down syndrome. It teaches number skills in small steps, and provides many opportunities for practice to consolidate learning. Number concepts are presented with clear, visual representations. Teaching activities are designed to minimize distraction and reduce working memory and language demands to make it easier to focus on the learning tasks. See and Learn Numbers may also be helpful for other children for whom similar adaptations are beneficial.

See and Learn Numbers includes 3 steps:

• See and Learn First Counting - activities to teach children to say the number words, to recognize the numerals, to link quantities to numbers, to count, and to understand the concepts of cardinality and equivalence for the numbers 1 to 10
• See and Learn First Concepts - activities to teach children to about shapes, colors, sizes, ordering, comparing, sorting and sequences
• See and Learn First Sums - activities to teach children to add, subtract, multiply and divide with numbers and quantities from 1 to 10, and to understand the relative sizes of these numbers, ordinality and inversion

When to start

The first two steps in See and Learn Numbers are suitable for children who understand and can say (or sign) at least 100 words. For many children with Down syndrome, this will be at around 3 or 4 years of age.

See and Learn Numbers is also suitable for older children who are still learning early number concepts, learning to count up to 10, and learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide with numbers and quantities from 1 to 10.

Apps, kits or both

Each step in See and Learn Numbers is available as an app and as a kit with printed materials and plastic counters . Kit components are also be available to purchase separately for parents and educators wishing to mix computer-based and hands-on teaching activities.

See and Learn First Counting is now available for iPads, and as a kit. Versions for Android tablets and Windows 10 devices will be released soon.

For home and school

See and Learn programs include step-by-step instructions, ready-to-use teaching materials, and all the information needed to understand and implement them. They are designed to be easy for parents to use at home and to be suitable for use in early intervention services, nurseries, preschools and schools.

Working with other See and Learn programs

See and Learn Numbers can be used alongside See and Learn Speech , See and Learn Language and Reading and See and Learn Memory as children will be progressing in all these areas throughout childhood.

The development of See and Learn Numbers was generously supported by the Big Lottery Fund and The Rayne Foundation .

Numbers

This is a small game for learning numbers in English. Students can click on the numbers to hear them spoken and see them written. The mini-game part allows students to practice listening and reading the numbers. While this game was primarily made for ESL students, young children may also find it useful.

The main aim of this game is to practice using numbers in English. This is done through the mini-game part in which students listen to audio and then click on the matching number. The hope is that this will increase familiarity and give practice in listening to how numbers sound.

The second aim is to present or introduce numbers for any students who do not know them. While numbers as a topic is quite basic for ESL learners, it is possible that some of the higher numbers may be completely new to some students and so they need some guidance on how they sound. This is done by displaying numbers on the screen just before the main game screen. Students can see all the numbers that will be used in the game and they can click to hear them spoken.

There are 8 sets of numbers:
0 to 20 - basic numbers
13 to 19 & 20 to 90 - comparing 'teen' numbers to 'ty' numbers
20 to 100
100 to 900,000 - large numbers
100 to 990 - mid-size numbers ending in ten
100 to 999 - mid-size numbers in detail
1000 to 100,000 - large numbers
1000 to 100,000 - large numbers in more detail

These groupings were chosen to give a broad range to practice with while trying to avoid repetition of similar numbers. All the numbers from 0 to 20 are included as these are the most common, but only some from 20 to 100 are used, as including every number up to a hundred would be somewhat excessive. Particular attention is given to the contrast between the teen numbers (13-19) and the multiples of ten (20,30,40 etc), as this is a difference that ESL learners often have trouble with. Set 4 focuses on the difference between larger numbers eg. 100 vs 1000 vs 10,0000. Sets 5 and 6 cover numbers from 100 to 1000, with set 6 being more precise. Finally, sets 7 and 8 cover numbers from 1000 to 100,000 with a focus on numbers that may sound similar, such as 16,000 vs 6016.

Originally, I was going to include numbers up to multiples of a million, but they ended up looking really long and would have required a really small font to display. Commas are used in all numbers above 10,000, but not for any below. This was a style choice: using commas too often can be distracting, but they are necessary for longer numbers. Also, some numbers between 1000 and 2000 are expressed as hundreds, eg. 1200 as 'twelve hundred' rather than 'one thousand two hundred'. This was again a style choice: for some numbers it is simpler to express in hundreds.

In the mini-game you take control of a small monster and you have to help him survive by pointing and clicking to make jump him on blocks. Three blocks are shown and each has a number displayed in the middle. The audio of one of these numbers is then played and you have to move the monster to the matching block. If you pick the correct block, then the monster survives, but if you choose badly, then the monster falls off the bottom of the screen and the game is over. Each round has 14 numbers and there are 8 rounds. There is also a timer and if you do not pick a block quickly, then you may fall off the bottom of the screen before you even move.

It is hoped that learning can take place through the association of audio/text with the numerical digit. Students will see and hear the numbers and then have that paired with the digits displayed. It is hoped that repeatedly doing this will increase familiarity and practice number ability. I think that the 2 variations of receptive recognition are covered here: in the game, students listen to or read the number and then match that to a numerical digit; in the presentation screen, students can see the digits and then can click to hear how they are spoken or see how they are written.

Audio by Jason Wright - Crazy Uncle with a Mic

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How to quickly learn numbers with a child - what to do if a child cannot remember numbers

What to do if your child cannot remember numbers in any way?

Others remember, but yours doesn't! It's a shame.

And, most importantly, why is this happening?! Unclear.

After all, a child is no worse than the rest, right?

And, to be extremely frank, in some places - even better! Smart and talented, after all…

A familiar story? And so it was with us as well 🙂.

What if your child can't remember numbers? How to help?

Masha is smart. Very smart and talented and… Well, you get the idea.

But remembering the numbers - it didn't work out! No matter how much they repeated, or counted, stickers were pasted - no use.

All the numbers for Masha were the same.

Stop!

One person

That's it! This was the main secret of Masha and many other children.

It's all about perception! It is different for people. Not just for kids, by the way.

There are children for whom one is one, and two is two. Well, you know how a donkey is a donkey, and a lamb is a lamb. You would probably be surprised if your child couldn't tell a donkey from a ram, right?

And there are children for whom one, two, three and all-all-all (as well as letters!) -

SIMPLY FOR - KO - RYU - CHKI!

And now imagine. They give you a piece of squiggles and say:

- This squiggle is called “one”, this one is called “two”, and this is generally the letter “a”! Did you remember everything? Repeat!

Imagine? Scary? So it is for children who do not remember numbers and letters in any way.

Well, okay, there is nothing terrible about it now, because we have already come up with a solution that helped us learn letters first, and then numbers.

Our ABC of Little Poets will help you learn letters, and today we will tell you about

How to help your child memorize numbers quickly

essence of the method

How to help? Very simple! Let's get back to the point, let's say, "troubles" (horror, how I don't like the word "problem").

All figures for one person! So, we need to "invent a face" for each digit!

That is, the shape of each number should stop becoming a squiggle for the child, but should become special, memorable.

And, of course, it should be remembered not just like that, but along with the name.

We took all these conditions into account and came up with rhymes-associations. But the associations are not just with the number (you will find many of them), but also with the shape of the number. The name of the figure is intentionally a rhyme. Now one number cannot be confused with another.

Yes! In each picture, be sure to look with your baby for exactly as much of something as the number indicates.

How to quickly learn the numbers up to 10 with a child

the method of Magic "Version"

0 - zero

There is not a single bagel!

So this is ZERO!

1 - one

Thin, big-nosed gentleman

There is always ONE!

2 - two

The swan barely swam to us,

Turned into the number two!

3 - three

Rub two rings

And you will get the number three!

4 - four

This is a hanger in the apartment!

And also - the number four!

5 – five

If you round the ponytail,

You will immediately become the number five!

6 – six

Is there a ponytail on top of the circle?!

So this is the number six!

7 - seven

The pole is completely slanted!

The figure is seven!

8 - eight

We will ask the roly-poly

Become the number eight today!

9 - nine

Attach a tail to the bottom of the circle,

And we get the number nine!

That's all our numbers!

When Masha and I were learning numbers, we played school, of course.

Each lesson they learned one number, one rhyme, colored one number and supplemented their workbook with the studied numbers with it.

Let me remind you that now you also have the opportunity to print a color "Version" and coloring pages with numbers and words! Finally, I found the time and collected everything in a collection, which is here.

Quick memorization for you!

Yes, if our method suits you, let me remind you that you can study the letters with our "ABC of Little Poets" using exactly the same method!

How to teach a child to count

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