Playing with Numbers: A Parent's "How-To" Guide for Teaching Math to Your Pre-Schooler

By Gaynor Govias

Pre-schoolers who are introduced to math at home will do better in school, and quite likely in adult life, too. This is what a number of recent studies have found. Even better – children simply need to be taught basic mathematical concepts, not anything fancy. Those basic concepts are what this book is all about.

Unlike many other math books, this book does not have colouring pages for your child to colour. It has been written for you, the parent. Your child does not need pretty pictures and colours in order to learn – not when there is a world of colour, and things to see, all around her.

As a parent, you do not need a degree in mathematics to use this book. You do not need to be a math teacher to teach a preschooler how to understand and have fun with numbers. You do not even need to be good at math yourself. This book will show you how to provide your child with a solid understanding of math. It will also help her enjoy it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gaynor Govias
• Release date: Feb 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781775292302

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Playing with Numbers

– A Parent's How-To Guide for Teaching Math to Your Pre-Schooler

Gaynor Govias, B.Sc., B. Ed.

Copyright (c) 2018 by Gaynor Govias. All rights reserved.

Cover photo by Ryan Fields, courtesy Unsplash.com.

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Contents

Introduction

About me

About the games in this book

Some math terms that are good to know

The number line

Some Concerns You May Have While Using This Book

My child does math differently! Am I teaching her to be lazy?

Talking about Mistakes

Before You Begin: Some Important Do’s and "Don’ts

Step 1: Simple Counting

Game 1: Parts of the body - simple counting to 2

Game 2: Parts of the body- simple counting to 5 or 10

Game 3: Counting using a storybook

Game 4: Counting with building blocks

Game 5: Counting while grocery shopping

Game 6: Counting items that are not the same

More or less? Bigger or smaller?

Game 7: More, or Less?

Game 8: More or Less, Smaller or Bigger

Game 9: Equal numbers

Game 10: Find the number

Game 11: Find similar numbers

Step2: Learning Shapes

Circles, squares and triangles

Game 12: What is this Shape?

Rectangles

Sequences and Patterns

Game 13: What comes next?

Game 14: What comes next? (Advanced version)

Game 15: Counting and grouping

Game 16: Mix and match

Game 17: Mix and Match Game – Advanced Level

Pattern Recognition Games

Game 18: Pattern recognition using dice

Game 19: Pattern recognition game using dominoes

Game 20: Pattern recognition using playing cards

Game 21: Pattern recognition using two dice

Writing Numbers

Game 22: Find the missing number

Game 23: What number comes next?

Step 3: Adding 1

Game 24: Let’s add 1

Step 4: Stepping Up

Game 25: Simple stepping up

Game 26: Advanced stepping up

Step 5: Stepping down by 1

Game 27: Let’s step down 1

Step 6: Stepping down by more than 1

Game 28: Let’s step down more than 1

Step 7: Number and Magnitude

Game 29: Bigger or smaller?

Game 30: Bigger, more, or less?

Size and Number

Game 31: Bigger and more

Game 32: Size and number (some more games)

Step 8: Reading two-digit numbers

Our strange names for numbers

Teaching your child two-digit numbers

Step 9: Counting to two digits

Game 33: Counting to 12 (your child’s first two-digit game)

Game 34: Counting two-digit numbers that end in zero

Game 35: Filling in the blanks for numbers from 21 to 100

Game 36: Find the missing number

Step 10: Advanced addition

A final word

My other books

Introduction

If you introduce your pre-schooler math at home, she or he will do better in school, and quite likely in