| Managing preschoolers is often perceived as an | | | | let them sing those songs every day before the |
| easy task, but on the contrary, it is hard yet | | | | lesson starts. |
| challenging. There are a lot of trials like | | | | 2. Rhymes are also memory boosters. A teacher |
| unreasonable complaints, slow learners, | | | | can teach classic counting rhymes or create her |
| hyperactive kids and the like. The school has to | | | | own. |
| balance all of these things to maintain its good | | | | 3. Do the body math. Preschoolers are fascinated |
| reputation. Every school aims to develop the | | | | with their bodies. Count the child's eyes, and then |
| student's skills and the way they relate with | | | | add them together: one eye plus one eye equals |
| others. The school is one of the agents of | | | | two eyes. How many ears, legs, arms, elbows, |
| socialization and is branded as the child's home. It | | | | knees or feet does he have? |
| is a venue for the child to express his feelings | | | | 4. Encourage four preschoolers to notice written |
| freely and to explore and discover new things. | | | | numbers, street addresses, license plates or the |
| The teachers are there not just to facilitate | | | | numbers on the calendar. This not only offers |
| simply but to facilitate creatively, because the | | | | experience reading numerals. It also reinforces the |
| child cannot cope up easily without creativity as | | | | fact that numbers are a normal part of everyday |
| one of the ingredients in teaching. | | | | life. |
| Thinking of ways to give the best learning to the | | | | 5. It is also effective to make use of blocks. Math |
| children involves a series of steps--- steps that | | | | is not just about numbers, it is also about area, |
| are carefully planned, tested and developed. All | | | | size, space, dimension, shape and comparison. |
| schools have their own means of creating | | | | 6. Try "Match 'em up" game. Math requires the |
| modules that can be instruments of a child's | | | | ability to distinguish similar and different attributes |
| development. Let's take for instance, the math | | | | and to put things into categories. To build these |
| subject, which is said to be one of the difficult | | | | things, preschoolers should be motivated to group |
| subjects in school. It may be, but if it is taught | | | | items by certain attributes like clothes by color or |
| creatively in preschool, the pupils, as they grow | | | | plates by shape. |
| older, will definitely love studying Math. Of course, | | | | 7. Show the child how to use the ruler. Let him |
| not all kids will turn into math geniuses but that's | | | | measure his desk or notebook. Talk together |
| not the point. The keyword is fun, and there are | | | | about comparative length. |
| lots of ways to have fun with math. | | | | 8. Experts still recommend dominoes to help kids |
| Here are some techniques in teaching math | | | | learn to recognize whole amount without having |
| creatively: | | | | to count dot by dot. Pick a number between 1 |
| 1. Let the kids sing math songs. Songs are the | | | | and 20 and give the child few chances to guess |
| best means for them to learn more easily. There | | | | the number, offering "higher" or "lower" as clues. |
| are counting songs and addition songs. Be sure to | | | | |