Teaching Math to young children can be a lot of fun when doing it as a game. Let them explore and acquire basic math principles by providing them with the right tools at home. Although there are many products available, I have looked for the ones that I believe will provoke the most impact in learning.
These are great for keeping the youngsters busy while teaching the older children or when assigning quiet play time or workboxes. Whichever method you use, these toys will sure to help your children master important concepts from early on.
Top 5 Toys to Teach Early Math Skills
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- Oversize pegs are easy for little fingers to grasp and stack on the board and each other to build towers while stacking.
- The pegboard stacker is great for building fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, develop and strengthen visual perception skills, visual motor coordination, making patterns & more!
- Use with your child for sorting, color recognition, patterning, basic math skills such as counting, adding, subtraction and graphing. The best part about this set is that your little ones won't even notice that they are learning as they "play".
2. Family Counting Bears - Includes bears in three different sizes and in 6 different colors. This is great for teaching counting, sorting, comparison, graphing. There are matching bowls available or you could write the color on a piece of paper and put in a bowl that you have at home to do this sorting.
3. Family Pattern Cards - Set of 16 cards to teach patterns and sequencing.
5. Mini Muffin Match Up - Teaches color recognition, sorting, matching, counting, and early math skills.
6. Number Construction - Use lines and curves to construct numbers while also building on fine motor skills.
Chime in: What toys do you use in your homeschool to teach early math?
Fabi
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