Lately, Kendi has been learning about skip counting in math. Kendi has had a piggy bank for as long as she can remember and always wants to count her money. What a great way to learn skip counting. With nickels you skip count by 5s and with dimes you skip count by 10s and so on. I have explained money and counting it to Kendi so many times, but it never clicked until I related them to her number bars. The green units represented pennies and five of those is the same as her blue number five bar which is also the same as a nickel. Ahhh, it finally makes sense to her.
Another thing we skip count with is her bean jar. She earns five or ten beans for every book she reads. I have her put the beans into piles of whatever number we decide to use and then we count them. She earns beans for other things too so sometimes the number is random like 27 so I'll have her count them out into 3 piles of 9 so that she sees that the concept goes further than just five and ten.
Lately, Kendi has been learning about skip counting in math. Kendi has had a piggy bank for as long as she can remember and always wants to count her money. What a great way to learn skip counting. With nickels you skip count by 5s and with dimes you skip count by 10s and so on. I have explained money and counting it to Kendi so many times, but it never clicked until I related them to her number bars. The green units represented pennies and five of those is the same as her blue number five bar which is also the same as a nickel. Ahhh, it finally makes sense to her.
Another thing we skip count with is her bean jar. She earns five or ten beans for every book she reads. I have her put the beans into piles of whatever number we decide to use and then we count them. She earns beans for other things too so sometimes the number is random like 27 so I'll have her count them out into 3 piles of 9 so that she sees that the concept goes further than just five and ten.
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