Preschool Math Games and Preschool Math Activities - preschool math is more than counting 123

Playing preschool math games and preschool math activities with preschoolers help to develop mathematical skills as well as other aspect of child development. Through games and activities, it also helps children to develop their fine motor, hand-eye coordination skills and reading.

Math is more than counting. It involves arithmetic operations, classification, measurement, estimation, data collection and mathematical reasoning. We can incorporate such mathematical concepts by playing math games and involving preschool math activities.

Number Rhymes and Math Songs

All young kids love to sing and rhyme. We can introduce basic mathematical concepts of number sense and number naming through number rhyme and math songs. You can either read your favorite number rhymes or sing some simple math jingles with them. Do remember to show and teach your child how to count using her fingers as you sing or rhyme.

Get some nursery rhymes books, CDs or get your kids to ask their grandparents for more.

Step, March, Walk and Count

Sometimes preschoolers may not understand counting means naming number in sequential order. This need to be reinforced often. We can even do it through daily walking.

If you do have stairs at home, do counting when you take them up or down the steps. You can also play marching at home. Count1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 as a kid march.

We can expand our simple walking activity in the garden to include measurement, estimation and comparison concepts. Ask your child how many steps does it take for her to reach the big tree. She can go ahead and start counting her steps as she moves towards the tree.

Then ask her again or to guess (estimate) how many step does it take you to reach the same big tree. Get her to talk about why the difference and give the explanation if she can't get it right on the mathematical reasoning.

Sort It Out

Matching and classification are part of mathematical concepts, which we can incorporate in preschool math games and activities.

There are many things they can help to sort it out at home - toys, laundry, groceries. We can start with the simplest ie sorting of socks since it has to come in pairs. After your laundry, let your kids sort out socks in different colors and sizes.

When your kids are able to do the simplest tasks, get them to take the challenge of sorting groceries. You may be amaze at their first sorting. Personally, I was amazed the first time I get my kids to sort groceries. I take it for granted that it is a simple task to me but,...it is not for the children.

You can enjoy teaching math while your kids enjoy learning math with preschool math games and preschool math activities. I hope the enjoyment is a motivator for you as the parent and your young learners in learning math.

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