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Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Use what works for your expectations and standards. We know that kids are more engaged when movement is involved. Skip counting can be an easy skill to add movement into the practice.
Start by printing and laminating your favorite set from our collection of Number Cards. Order Me! Pull out the cards for counting by 2s from 2 — Give students a card and then encourage students to work together to order the students. Use this activity for students to skip count by 2s, skip count by 5s and skip count by 10s.
Modify this activity to include more numbers or introduce multiplication by skip counting by other numbers such as 3s or 4s. Put students into groups and give them a set of cards for counting by 2s, 5s or 10s. The more multisensory you make it then the more fun they will have, and this will lead to a much better foundation to work from following this.
Get the children up on their feet. You are all going to march together. Swing your arms, and encourage them to get those knees up! We are going to count at the same time as marching — 1, 2, 3 etc. This is also a great game for simple rote counting find out the ultimate 17 rote counting games here. You pick some kind of movement, and do the same counting strategy as with march counting — the odds are silent, and say the even numbers.
Songs are a fantastic way of teaching pretty much anything, check out some fantastic math songs for counting here , and counting by 2s is no exception. Simple counting songs are quite easy to make up, to be honest. Here is one I created to the music of Twinkle Twinkle:. There are lots of great animations and counting videos on Youtube. This is one that I have used quite a lot:. A top tip is to encourage the children to try to show the numbers on their fingers as they are singing.
This is easier said than done, but this again activates more parts of the brain. Chants like this deeply embed rote counting because they activate multiple parts of our brains at the same time.
Have some kind of magic wand for this. Have the children sitting facing you. Have the magic wand in your hand on your lap, with the end of the wand pointing vertically upwards. You are going to start pointing the wand first to the left, and then to the right.
The children are going to count as you do this. When you point the wand to the left, they are going to say nothing. When you point to the right they will say the number.
Pick a simple dance move, ideally one with two movements. Count as you dance. For the first movement say nothing. For the second, say the number.
When children have a got a simple foundation built, and have played around at counting by 2s, it is time to take it to the next level. The following activities give them lots of opportunities to begin to apply the rote counting that they have now started to develop.
This is a fun listening game , as well as being great for counting. As I mentioned before, we are lucky that our bodies have lots of opportunities for counting in twos. The children try to count the legs of the children stood up. Either count in 1s the easy way , or if anyone is able to count in 2s, then that is exactly what you want.
Games like this are also great for practising one to one correspondence find out what that is, and the best ways of teaching it here.
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