This week saw the start of a new Maths course at the school. The Sensory Seeker is coming along but is still well behind his peers in this area. His brother, who is in the year above, is flying and knows all of his 12 times tables. So when an opportunity came up for the 3 of us to spend 5 weeks at school on Maths I thought it would be a nice idea for them to help each other. We made a Snakes and Ladders game.
There are some fantastic Number Activities link up to the Weekly Kids Co-op and as it is an area that I am going to be focusing on for over the next month I thought I would share with you some of the posts that have linked up. I think that it is important that children develop not only their mathematical abilities but a love of the subject through the Number activities.
Number Activities from The Weekly Kids Co-op
Counting with Foam Numbers – great for fine motor.
Simple Educational Activities: Money – very good for helping with relating Maths to the every day World.
Math Games: Number Fences – My favourite thing about this is the excuse to eat more lollies!
Counting and Number Recognition: sticky Wall Activity – This is good for hand development too – getting him to flatten his hand up the wall is something the OT told me to do.
Free Math Fact Houses for Multiplication & Division – There is also ones for addition and subtraction – a good fun way of helping with the basics.
Paint by Numbers in the Shower – I absolutely love this there is no activity more perfect for The Sensory Seeker as it is messy but in an area where he can be cleaned straight away.
Coloring Race – Great idea as it helps with fine motor skills and social skills as well as number.
Hook a Duck – this one helps with hand-eye co-ordination too.
Playdough Numbers – As it is so easy to get different textures and smells into Playdough.
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Some really good ideas here, I remember using some sort of spaghetti with my nephew when he was just learning to count, so much fun and a bit messy x
What a great resource! I’ve been trying to work out how to support my son’s maths learning at home. Some fun, low-pressure ideas here – perfect.
Some brilliant ideas here and a fabulous resource. A great linky.
Some really good ideas here. I’ll be bookmarking this page as so many would be useful for my boys.
Some great ideas, and a linky I haven’t seen before with lots of great advice. I have two daughters and these tips will be very helpful so thank you for sharing 🙂
Great round up. Off to add some links to the post
Too too many adults are scared of maths and as a direct result, not good at it, because of something that happened when they were young. Building up as LOVE of numbers as you are doing here is SUCH a worthwhile thing. Maths was my favourite subject at school. The Co-Op sounds fabulous xxx
Some great ideas to enjoy maths.
Some brilliant ideas here. I have been wanting to start introducing my daughter to numbers so will try some of these, and my son is always happy to learn so I am sure we could do some of the older children activities at home too.
Some fab ideas, will definitely be trying some of the simpler ones with Syd x
It is a great idea to make maths fun and to learn through games and creative activities. These will be useful for Fran, she loves counting but often orders them in the wrong way.
Great linky, I’ll have to check these out! xxx
What an amazing collections of post, a wonderful resource x
Children learn so much better if they’re enjoying themselves – love your idea of playing snakes and ladders x x
Looks like lots of fun ideas to try here – i always struggle for new things