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We are in our third year homeschooling our littles and let me tell you, I am a big fan of learning through games. This math worriedness is right up my alley.
This particular worriedness makes learning math fun!
Yes, I just used the words “math” and “fun” in the same sentence.
No, I am not kidding.
Hands on math through activities is the weightier way to go when kids are little!
Besides just stuff fun, this gross motor “Make a Math Path” game takes only a couple minutes to get ready.
Even better, it can be well-timed to many levels of math, from number recognition to wing and subtraction. Or, from numerical sequence to greater than, less than, plane and odds.
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I haven’t tested whether or not it would work for calculus. I was fresh out of desire to do calculus on this particular day. Maybe tomorrow.
Gross Motor Math Paths (Fun Learning Activity!)
To play this gross motor math hop, you will need:
- a large playing space, preferably that can be written on with sidewalk chalk
- sidewalk chalk
First, make your game board. You can make as many rows as you want.
Each row can moreover include as many numbers as you want.
I’ve washed-up this math worriedness variegated ways, but this time I did six rows with six numbers in each.
I included a zero in many of the rows so that my kids could most likely finish the path they began, no matter what.
If you want to rencontre them more, don’t include the zero each time.
Next, requite the math prompt.
This will vary depending on what age and skill you are working with.
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Add & Subtract Math Activity
For my 6 and 8 year old kiddos, I said something like “Make 20.”
In this instance they then had to find a path wideness the game workbench that would result in a sum of 20.
Using the example of 20, they could take the pursuit path: 4 to 3 to 2 to 6 to 2 to 3. (4 3 2 6 3=20.)
At each number, they say the math sentence aloud. “4 plus 3 equals 7,” then they might hop to the 2 and say “7 plus 2 equals 9,” and so on.
You can do this in reverse to practice subtraction.
In this approach, you requite them a starting number and tell them they need to end up at zero. So if they started with 15, they might hop from 4 to 3 to 4 to 0 to 1 to 3. (15-4-3-4-0-1-3=0.)
As a twist to your math activity.
Allow them to add AND subtract.
So, for instance, if they were working toward making 20, they might get to 24 by hopping from 9 to 8 to 7. (9 8 7=24.)
Then, they would have to get rid of those uneaten 4 by hopping to 1, then 1, then 2. (24-1-1-2=20.)
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Evens & Odds; Greater Than & Less Than
Ask your child to find a path that only uses odd or plane numbers.
You can moreover set number parameters to this worriedness to work on greater than and less than math skills.
Such as “Find a path that only uses numbers greater than 4,” or “Find a path that only uses numbers less than 6,” for example.
Change up your language, too: “Find a path that only uses numbers greater than or equal to 2 1,” instead of just saying “3.”
Number Recognition and Numerical Sequence
You can hands use this math worriedness game workbench for younger kids who aren’t ready for wing and subtraction.
For toddlers and preschoolers just learning number recognition, just say, for example, “Hop on all of 5s!”
In specimen you were wondering, yes, my three-year old is wearing his socks on his hands, and his shoes on the wrong feet.
Isn’t that what you do?
To practice numerical sequence, ask them to find their way in order from 1 to 10.
Easy as pie.
Which, incidentally, has never seemed all that easy to make.
Does ”easy as pie” refer to “easy to eat”? Because, I can most definitely support that thought.
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Indoor Math Worriedness Alternatives
Are you lacking a chalk-friendly outdoor space? No problem! You can moreover play this math worriedness with a piece of paper.
Write the number lines as you would above, and then use your fingers to hop wideness the numbers.
Alternatively, hop wideness the numbers using a small toy or whoopee figure.
Obviously you won’t be tapping into that “gross motor” stuff with this method, but just do some Zumba without and it’s basically the same thing, I think.
A large sheet of butcher or kraft paper could possibly be used.
Alternatively you could use painters tape on the floor to make the math worriedness big for indoors.
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All the Ways to Use This Math Hop Activity
In sum (yikes, no pun intended), here are some of the math skills you could practice with this worriedness board:
- number recognition
- even and odd
- greater than, less than
- numerical sequence
- addition
- subtraction
- calculus (still up for debate; you try it and report back, OK?)
Have you had any fun with math lately?
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