Here’s another free math tutoring video showing an activity you can do with young kids. If you know the doubles facts, you can find the doubles +/- facts by using logic. You can also do this activity with countable objects – Skittles, for instance. You have 4 Skittles and the child has 4 Skittles. Ask the child how many Skittles you both have in all. Then give a Skittle to the child and ask how many you each have. Talk through the logic of what happens when one person shares with another. Do how many more do you have? How many less do I have? Do we still have the same amount altogether?
If you watch carefully in this video, you’ll be able to tell that my 4-year-old isn’t fully understanding the logic of this. It should be more clear to her in 6 months to a year, I think. This is a good Kindergarten and 1st grade skill to learn. Do it with numbers other than four, too!
Here are a couple free math tutoring videos of another activity you can do with children to help them learn their addition/subtraction facts to 10 (or above). You don’t have to use the “having a party” theme. If you or the child comes up with one you like better, feel free to change it. Better learning happens that way!
I got this idea from CrewtonRamonesHouseOfMath.com. He uses different blocks than we do, but the concept is the same. Lots of good ideas over there!
This free math tutoring video shows a fun activity to do if you have wooden Cuisenaire Rods. Learn your addition and subtraction fact families while you play – no worksheets needed! And no writing involved for preschoolers or kids with dysgraphia! A few minutes a day of this is all you’ll need to have your facts within 10 memorized!
