Math Manipulative Activities

   One great idea many parents can you in building up math ideas at home or at the daycare. A child enjoys using math puzzles counting shapes, primary colors, number concepts. Also, in the classroom you can count beans, beads, crayons, markers as a way of learning math for preschoolers. The use of math books, reading short math stories to a child will not only help literacy but their math skills. Lakeshore Learning store sells coins, colored chips, and blocks you can use at home or during center time. When using manipulative at home or school you are building a lot of math skills so they child will be ready for pre-k or kindergarten. By having a child read signs while in the passing by stores, roads or even grocery shopping will help them build math skills as well. Using beans as a math activity is great too, you can draw a circle on construction paper and past 1 bead for number 1 and so on. This will help them gain math knowledge of learning 1-10.