How the families turned a game of cards into helping a young child learn her numbers in counting, how learning and playing happen hand-in-hand in these, earlier years of, childhood, translated…
My daughter’s preschool classes halted due to MERS-CoV outbreaks, I take care of her, and she’d, zoomed in on every move I made too, we were, stuck with each other, like back to before she started preschool, like that chewing gum, stuck to me everywhere I go. What’s different was, from before, I got to, take her everywhere, and now, we can only, engage, in that, staring, contest.
Awhile ago, my daughter saw me playing that small game “Flip the Cards”, it was a memory game, she’d nagged that she wanted to play too, and so, I’d allowed her to have a few rounds, worried that she might get addicted to the cell phones, I’d taken out a deck of cards, told her, “It’s not the real game on the cell phone, let’s play with the real deck now!”
Flipping to find the same numbers: other than learning the numbers, it can also, train the children’s memories, in just a week that we played on, my daughter can remember a lot more than she had, and, earned more Bingo cards that I had.
card games we can play to help children improve their math skills…
Other than the memory training games, “Heart Attack” is also a good way to train my children’s concentration, hand-eye coordination too.
My mother and my eldest brother would come by every evening to supper with us, as I prepared the meals in the kitchen, it was my daughter’s time with her grandmother and uncle, in that game of cards, “finding the same numbers”, “Heart attack”, my daughter played through all of them, and would run to me, to tell me about who won and who lost.
Recently, I’d found, that my daughter who’d, originally had troubles counting the numbers serially, she can now, count to a hundred without missing any numbers, without any note that I give to her. All of these improvements, were from the playing and learning, the internalizing of the games she’d been, playing. I’d told my daughter, she need to thank grandma and uncle, for playing with her, to help her improve her number sense, her grandmother and uncle are, the ones who are, credited, for her, improvements in math skills.
And so, this is how, playing those games IS learning for your young children, like for this young child, she originally had troubles with counting her numbers, but after her mother started playing the cards with her, it’d, helped her improve her math and counting skills, and, the grandmother and uncle should also be given the credits, for accompanying this young girl to play, because playing IS, learning in those, earlier years of your children’s, lives.
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