![]() ![]() We already discussed why skip counting will be helpful for a child’s math success as they get older! Knowing this, why not give them an almost effortless way to learn how to skip count with songs?! They memorize things so much easier than adults! (Again, the neuroscience research on this is interesting, if you’re into that sort of thing.) Chances are that when you had your own young children, you remembered Mary Had a Little Lamb from your childhood even though you hadn’t sung it in 25 years! Volumes of memory science & neuroscience research prove this, and you can read about that if you love to nerd out like that.īut the bottom line is, we all know that if something is sung, we are way more likely to remember it – commercial jingles, church songs, children’s songs. We all have quickly learned the lyrics to a song that was played over and over. The kids who knew how to skip count early on picked up the harder math concepts more easily as they went through their math education. I’ve observed the same thing play out for countless homeschool families in our co-ops and hybrid schools. They all get it because we used math programs that developed good number sense & because they learned to sing skip counting songs when they were 4-5 years old. I have now taught my own children time, money, and eventually multiplication with relative ease. Small gear based clock – Under $10 on Amazon! – we’ve used this to teach time to every 5-6 year old in our house WHAT?! That is confusing!! SKIP COUNTING MAKES IT EASIER THOUGH!
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