Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. If you see children counting the chocolates or gifts they receive on Birthdays, you may appreciate the importance of teaching counting. As the count of goodies (their just-found manipulatives) increases, the grin gets broader. Have you ever thought about what is actually … Read more
Learning disabilities are not restricted to discomfort with numbers and language only. If you dissect these issues deeply, you will find other co-morbidities working behind the scenes too. Difficulty in reasoning, comprehending, or ascertaining orientation or inability to take care of the self, which is what cognitive disability sums up as, is the result of … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. ‘There must be some playful way of teaching new math concepts to first graders.’ If this thought hits your mind often, especially when you see the child struggling through basic operations, here is good news for you! There are manipulatives available as … Read more
It is now a well-established fact that dyscalculia is a reality! Children suffering from dyscalculia cannot identify numbers or operational signs like ‘+’, ‘-‘, ‘x’, etc. That is why educators advocate replacing pen-and-paper practice by performing an action using manipulatives to understand numeric relationships and operations. Besides Dyscalculics, beginners of numeric operations can also get … Read more
Games attract children easily. Children trying to avoid solving problems of ratio and proportion worksheets and other similar topics can be driven to engage deeper in these with games. Beautiful backdrops, a community learning[1] environment, and role-playing are some of the interesting factors that make games a good option for mastering ratio and proportion, or … Read more
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What worksheet topics can help in learning everything about ratios and proportions? It is quite a valid question, especially when you don’t know what we get to learn from the concept of ratio and proportion. We have done number comparison games in one of our posts. There we learned only about comparing on the basis … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. If you are searching for board games to learn division, you probably are not too comfortable learning it with conventional methods. And, that is perfectly ok! You can have your own way of learning math or any other subject. Difficulty with mathematical … Read more
Teaching Math is challenging. Driving young children to dig deeper into elementary concepts of Mathematics does take an effort. Many researchers lay emphasis on the use of gamified resources to achieve the purpose. Perhaps, that is why elementary math games have become a hot topic among teachers who prefer experimentation and encourage involvement or interaction … Read more
Children tend to count things individually or on their fingers; it is a basic skill. But, before developing this skill, they tend to count without counting literally. This sense of counting by sight is called subitizing. It prepares the students to guess the value of a given set before finding its exact quantity. Various manipulatives … Read more
Fractions introduce children to the concept of breaking whole numbers into smaller parts. These parts are less than the whole number one, quantitywise. Making use of this idea of breaking numbers into fractions finds its best utility in real-life situations where something is to be divided into equal parts among a group of people. Fraction … Read more