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Number activities for preschoolers don't have to be boring and just worksheets, make them fun so your preschooler will love math!
I love math. I’m a nerd, yes. But I love anything to do with numbers.
I really do hope I can pass this along to my kids by making learning activities about numbers and counting fun for them and not a chore.
As I’m typing this, Henry’s shouting excitedly as he’s counting how many things on his sprayer…though I’m not really sure what he’s counting exactly. He made it to 39 though!
Because I’m a huge math nerd I searched for easy and fun number activities for preschoolers.
My Favorite 40+ Number Activities for Preschoolers!
Try these activities to help preschoolers learn their ABCs!
Recognizing Numbers Activities for Preschoolers
Identifying numbers can be a learning experience for preschoolers (and younger!). Many of the ABC recognition activities can also be adjusted for numbers.
My kids love these 12 number activities for preschoolers to recognize numbers.
- Turn a number into sensory art – perfect for the 100th day of school!
- Go on a hunt for numbers and match it with the same number!
- Follow a number from start to finish in a maze.
- Trace numbers, really big!
- Little Family Fun created a parking lot with numbers.
- Pop! Find the number and pop it!
- Find and match playing cards.
- Have target practice with water balloons and numbers, like Motherhood on a Dime
- Make art! Do this paint by number canvas art.
- Use stickers and printable number cards to play hide and seek, from Teach Mama.
- Draw and paint over numbers with q-tips, like Toddler at Play!
- Clip and match with giant numbers from You’ve Got This Math!
Activities for Number Recognition
Counting Activities for Preschoolers
Learning there’s a sequence to the numbers and what comes next.
Try these 18 number activities to help preschoolers learn to count.
- Connect the dots! A simple past-time activity that reinforces the order of numbers.
- Upcycle a box into a puzzle of numbers!
- Create a maze of numbers to drive through. Can they count their way to the end?
- Stacking up boxes and counting how high you can go!
- Make a craft together with multiple pieces. Have your child do the counting!
- Count cars of a particular color while on the road, or semis, or vans, whatever suits their interest!
- Create a learning game with your ABC mat and number blocks. Choose a number block and pound the corresponding times with a hammer on the corresponding number mat!
- Let your child run an experiment and measure how much something holds! How many cups fit?
- Make puzzles with a picture. Label sections of the puzzle in numerical order. Cut apart and have your child put it back together again, from Growing in PreK.
- Use friendly animal crackers to practice counting and number recognition, like I Can Teach My Child.
- Measure objects (or yourself!) and count how big they are, from The Imagination Tree
- Count objects around the house. No Time For Flash Cards wants to know “How many doors do you have?”
- Play any board game, or make your own! Little Family Fun creates a fish race game!
- Count with LEGO! Do Play Learn likes to label a paper with numbers and count out the LEGO next to it.
- Snack time! Use dice and fruit snacks and play until you eat them all up, like Kids Activities Blog.
- Have a bean bag toss on the stairs, number them!
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Counting Activities for Preschoolers
One to One Correspondence Activities for Preschoolers
Knowing your numbers is one thing and knowing how to count is another. But being able to put them into context that they each have meaning is done with one to one correspondence.
Get ready for preschool with 35 name activities!
I love these 12 number activities that help a preschool practice one to one correspondence.
- Head out into nature and explore flowers. Count and compare flower petals!
- Go on a hunt for a number and match it to its corresponding dots.
- Build towers of blocks on a number mat, with the correct number of blocks high!
- Spark your child’s interest with their interests! A farming approach of loading grain bins with the corresponding number of pieces of “grain.”
- Have a newspaper throwing game and count up the newspaper balls, or how many you make, or miss!
- Make something in the kitchen together, or do an experiment and let your child measure out and do the counting.
- Sort through objects by color, and count how many you have of each!
- Fill a dump truck with objects (like Dominoes!) and count how many you can fit in there, like Inspiration Laboratories.
- Estimate first for some fun and then count item, from Teach Preschool.
- Have a counting race in the front yard and pick dandelions in the process!
- Roll a die (or two!) and practice one to one correspondence as kids build towers with blocks.
- Use a dice and small objects (like pom poms or corn kernels) and count them and fill up a tray.
One to One Number Activities for Preschoolers
Counting and number books that will get preschoolers excited about numbers:
- The Baker’s Dozen: A Counting Book
- I Spy Numbers
- One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers)
Do you actively work on numbers and counting with your child? Share your favorite activities!
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SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECT - the topic of a scientific article on the sciences of education "DIGITAL ECONOMY": SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECT
Modern civilization is developing at an excessively fast pace.
Many scientists argue that the future belongs to the digital, virtual economy. The digital economy is a system of economic, social and cultural relations based on the use of digital information and communication technologies. It can be said without exaggeration that digital transformation affects and qualitatively changes the life of every person, creating enormous opportunities for breakthrough growth and the implementation of Russia's national development goals. With the use of digital technologies, everyday life of a person, the structure of the economy, education are changing, as well as new requirements for communications, computing power, information systems and services.
Digital technologies are predictive analytics in medicine, constant remote monitoring
, industrial development based on new sensors, the ability to virtually create new products and ideas, evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of a new product without unnecessary financial costs; delivery of the most up-to-date educational content to educational institutions and much, much more.
The Government of the Russian Federation adopted the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" [1], aimed at creating the conditions necessary for the breakthrough development of the digital economy of Russia for the economic growth and competitiveness of the country, its national sovereignty and improving the quality of life of citizens. One of the objectives of the program is to improve the education system, which should provide the digital economy with competent personnel. How should the domestic system of preschool education be modernized in this context?
It should be noted that in today's world countries are developing at a rapid pace due to high birth rates, state care for the well-being of families with small children, and a developed system of preschool education. It is no coincidence that in recent years, in world practice, awareness of the importance of high-quality preschool education has significantly increased as the most effective investment in a person and the development of the state, its future.
Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation" dated 29December 2012 No. 273-F3 secured the status of the first level of general education for preschool education. According to the Federal State Educational Standard (FSES) for preschool education, parents (legal representatives) of preschool children have the right to choose the form in which children receive preschool education (in preschool educational organizations or in the form of family education). In the May Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (2018), in order to achieve a breakthrough socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, increase the population of the country, improve the living standards of citizens, create comfortable living conditions for them, the tasks of developing (adjusting) together with state authorities were set
subjects of the Russian Federation of targeted programs. Thus, in the field of education, by 2021, 100% accessibility of preschool education for children under the age of 3 years should be ensured, conditions for their development should be created, and programs of psychological, pedagogical, methodological and consulting assistance to parents of children receiving preschool education in the family should be implemented.
The central task in this case is to ensure the quality of preschool education, understood in the modern theory of preschool pedagogy as compliance with the standard and needs of consumers of educational services, which are the parents (legal representatives) of preschoolers.
According to the Federal State Standard (FSES), preschool education is an institution of socialization and individualization of the development of each child; Childhood Diversity Institute. The development of the Federal State Educational Standard is based on the cultural and historical methodology of developing systems and their diversity. Therefore, the quality of preschool education can only be ensured through a mechanism to support diversity. In this regard, in each kindergarten, teachers should create their own pedagogical system, focused on children attending this kindergarten. It is necessary that
it was not the child who adapted to the kindergarten and its requirements, but the kindergarten focused its educational process on specific pupils, ensuring their socialization and realization of their development potential, which requires a very high level of professional competence from the teacher.
Recognition of the priority of family upbringing and responsibility, first of all, of parents for the upbringing and education of their children, the idea of supporting, guiding, supplementing and providing comprehensive assistance to parents, using the capabilities of all other social institutions and, above all, preschool educational organizations, requires a different philosophy of interaction with parents of preschool children. It is especially important to search for more diverse and modern ways of providing consulting assistance to those parents who have chosen a family form of preschool education for their children, without attending a kindergarten, in order to have an equal start at school at the stage of completion of preschool childhood.
Evidence suggests that today's children have changed significantly compared to previous generations of preschoolers. Individual features of development, depending on the state of health,
conditions of life and family upbringing, began to manifest themselves even more clearly.
A large scatter is found in all indicators of development in newborns, a tendency for the growth of infants with deviating, unfavorable options for psychophysical development.
Modern children begin to exist in the world of digital technologies even before they are born. It is digital technologies that make it possible to determine the sex of the child during the perinatal period, to save his life; baby care has changed, and it's not just diapers. Digital devices are being developed that monitor the temperature, breathing rate, and sleep of the baby in order to inform the parent via smartphone if necessary about the trouble. New digital didactic aids and toys for the development of preschoolers appear, the objective world has become different. Touchscreen technology has provoked parents to give touch screen devices to babies. Responding to the touch of the baby's fingers, "mobile phones" cause an involuntary interest in the sounds made, color effects; concentrate the involuntary attention of the baby, form a connection between the action and the result, and .
.. become a favorite toy that replaces the traditional ones. These gadgets are easy to learn how to use the "trial and 9" method.0003
errors" through manipulation. In fact, a qualitatively new remedy has appeared that contains both a lot of opportunities for the development of an infant and the risks associated with addiction, unexplored effects on brain development, higher mental functions and children's health.
As L. A. Grigorovich notes, “the sciences about the child (first of all, developmental psychology), which underlie the construction of pedagogical technologies, are rapidly becoming obsolete, since they do not have time to fundamentally study the modern child” [2, p. thirty]. This thesis is absolutely applicable to preschool children who live in different sociocultural conditions than children not only of past centuries, but even decades ago.
The social institution of the family has changed significantly. Parents of preschoolers are people of a new generation of Russians; a world that requires mobility and the ability to live in situations of uncertainty.
In family education, there is a tendency to expand the educational space for preschoolers who actively travel with their parents to other countries, visit theaters, museums, etc. However, the high pace of life leads to overwork, forms a “chronic fatigue syndrome” in parents, which -
dension — narrowing of the educational space. Parents began to communicate less with children, play, read to them. The question of the compatibility of the career orientations of young women with the effective performance of their educational function is topical. For the successful formation of the dominant of motherhood, social factors and material security play an essential role.
Modern preschool education is developing towards the use of digital technologies in education: electronic registration in preschool educational organizations, kindergarten websites, various on-line events and competitions have already become a daily reality. The educational process itself has also changed significantly, methods of teaching and developing children using digital technologies are being tested.
However, the excessive use of television, video games and the Internet causes numerous psychological and medical health problems in preschoolers. The impact of digital technologies on the physical and mental health of children should be dosed, optimal. For children 5-6 years old with 1 health group, the maximum limit of one-time work with modern gadgets is 15-20 minutes. This determines the expediency of computerization of educational
processes at the stage of preschool childhood.
How should the modern educational process be built in this context? Discussions on this issue at the level of international conferences [3] testify to the tendency to “look at the child as a person from the future”, to give children the opportunity to express themselves to the maximum, providing the opportunity to enrich children's sociocultural practices through pedagogical support. It is important to integrate learning and children's independent activities through the creation of a "space for children's realization" (N.
E. Veraksa). No less significant is learning in a multi-environment, which allows you to learn how to live in different spaces, to acquire the skills of entering and exiting space. Life in the digital economy requires learning to choose; learn not to be afraid of mistakes. In the opinion of many scientists, it is very important to encourage the child to be creative, so the teacher needs to teach ma-
lysha “to work with absurdity”, because every new thing starts with absurdity; you have to learn how to meet him. Probably, this is precisely the key to the success of life in the digital economy, and any other that will replace it... preschool education and family education priorities, requires new scientific research to ensure the quality of preschool education in the conditions of modern civilization. In this context, the relevance of significant changes in the educational sphere, training (advanced training, retraining) of teaching staff, modernization of the preschool education system, its synchronization with the realities of the modern world and the uniqueness of the Russian regions in terms of the implementation of the tasks set becomes obvious.
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1. National program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" Government Decree of July 28, 2017 No. 1632-r M., 2017. (Electronic resource) // http://www. tadviser.rU/images/a/af/9gFM4FHj4PsB 79I5v7yLVuPgu4bvR7M0.pdf (Date of access: 10.12.2018).
REFERENCES
2. Grigorovich LA Challenges of time and educational practice // Actual problems of primary, preschool and special education in the conditions of modernization. Kolomna: GSGU, 2016, p. 29-32.
3. V International scientific-practical conference "Education
and education of young children" [Text] // Modern preschool education
. Theory and practice. 2016. No. 6 (68). pp. 14-27.
REFERENCES
1. The national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation" the order of the Government of July 28, 2017 No. 1632-r M., 2017. (Electronic resource) // http://www.tadviser.ru/images/a/af/9gFM4FHj4PsB79I5v7yLV uPgu4bvR7M0.pdf (Date of the address: 10.12.2018).
2.
Grigorovich L. A. Calls of time and educational practice // Actual problems of primary, preschool and
vocational education in the conditions of modernization. Kolomna, 2016. P. 29-32. (In Russ.).
3. V International scientific and practical conference "Education and Training of Children of Younger Age" [Text] // Sovremennoe doshkol'noe obrazovanie. theory and practice. 2016. No. 6 (68). P. 14-27. (In Russ.).
Received December 18, 2018
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