How to Teach Math While Playing to Toddlers

Introducing math at an early age should start from the most basic things.

Mathematical concepts such as matching, sorting, patterns, and simple calculation is easily understood and can be taught when the children move and play.

You can teach these concepts to children while performing everyday activities favored by both of you.

Insert the game into the daily routine will help your child develop math skills and learning abilities, and prepare himself for the future.

Learning Volume When Shower

Children can begin to understand the concept of volume during a shower. Collect several different containers and vary in shape and size.

Begin the activity by showing the children what to do; fill the container with water and tell the child what you are doing.

Take a container full of water and pour the contents into a different container. Ask loudly "Mommy wanted to know if this container will be able to accommodate all this water?"

Encourage children to participate by offering him a container and pour water into the container.

Use words like: full and empty, large and small, wide and narrow, to teach children about the volume and measurement.

Playing Matching Objects

Teach children about the initial reasoning with a simple matching game.

This activity can be done when you wash clothes or take them while shopping.

A child must be shown how to match objects.

For example, start with matching socks, provide and put three pairs of socks on the floor.

Lift the socks and ask the child to find a partner socks. Give praise if the child managed to find matching socks, proceed to find another pair of socks.

This activity would be great if you wear socks with three different colors to start, replace it with more complicated socks after a child can easily find and match the pair of socks.

Making Beaded Necklaces

Making bead necklaces will teach children about how to sort out and recognize patterns of objects. Materials needed include beads, string for beads, and container.

Sit down with the child and ask the child to sort the beads into groups of the same color.

Begin the activity by choosing two beads, and create patterns with the beads (red, blue, and red, blue). Ask the children to find the next bead to form the pattern.

Continue this activity by adding different colors on a necklace pattern (red, blue, yellow, red, blue, yellow), and then ask the child to find another color then follows the pattern