Teaching Tip from Carrie: Skip Counting

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my3sons
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Teaching Tip from Carrie: Skip Counting

Post by my3sons » Wed Mar 08, 2023 3:50 pm

Have you ever considered skip counting as a math help?

As soon as our kiddos start learning about multiplication, we teach them to skip count.  They learn to do this by singing along with songs. Our boys learned songs for the 2's on up through the 12's. For example, for the 2's they learned to count 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18.

Why is this a helpful math tool?

Skip counting makes doing multiplication much easier. It is also very helpful once kiddos get to least common multiple and greatest common factor.  A myriad of other math-related tasks such as dividing are also easier if kids know how to do this!

To read more about this tip, click the link below:
https://heartofdakota.com/2023/03/02/sk ... math-help/
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