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Home » Early Numeracy with Cars

Early Numeracy with Cars

January 21, 2013 by admin 23 Comments

When Z was younger he loved ‘Cars’ the movie, so we have quite a collection of Lightening McQueen and pals. H and I put the cars to good use this morning to practice counting and some colour recognition, which became a fab maths game.

Numeracy for kids

 

I haven’t done much counting with H, but she has already picked up how to count to 15 just from listening to her big brother and sister.

 

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We tried some very simple sums. Using the cars seemed to help her visualise what was happening more easily.

 

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We even made some simple patterns.

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What do you use to make counting practice more exciting? Do you have any fun Maths games?

 

For older children how about trying our tunnel number game? or our treasure hunt with numbers? Or for more pattern activities, try Science Sparks.

Filed Under: Family Fun, Fun with Numbers Tagged With: Early numeracy, learning to count, math games, numeracy activities

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  1. Karen

    January 22, 2013 at 1:11 pm

    What a good idea. We do lots of counting on the way to and from School. Then this weekend my husband was doing simple sums ith pieces of fruit…they were loving it xx

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm

      oh wow, that sounds fun. x

      Reply
  2. The Fairy and The Frog

    January 24, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    Fun maths! (I’ve pinned too)

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:45 pm

      Thank you.

      Reply
  3. JDaniel4's Mom

    January 25, 2013 at 1:03 pm

    You came up with so many wonderful ways to learn with cars.

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:45 pm

      Thank you

      Reply
  4. maggy, red ted art

    January 25, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    Oooh what a great way to make maths fun!!!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:46 pm

      Thanks Maggy. x

      Reply
  5. amber whitehead

    January 26, 2013 at 2:38 am

    We are doing a lot of counting these days too.

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:46 pm

      Its fun isn’t it?

      Reply
  6. Kerry

    January 28, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    Wow what a great idea, we do lots of counting when cooking and as we seem to cook lots we do a lot of it xx

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:46 pm

      I like that idea as well!

      Reply
  7. Galina V

    January 29, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    Brilliant idea. I should try it with my little man.

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:47 pm

      Thank you.

      Reply
  8. Chelsea Williams

    January 29, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    Great post! My daughter does much better learning with objects! Love this idea 🙂

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:48 pm

      Yay, so glad you like it. x

      Reply
  9. Jenny

    January 29, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    That’s such a great idea. We also have a collection of Cars which will help with numeracy. Thanks for the idea.

    Reply
    • admin

      January 29, 2013 at 10:48 pm

      Thank you. xxx

      Reply
  10. Rebecca

    February 2, 2013 at 8:29 pm

    I love this! Great way to practice addition!

    have featured it on The Sunday Showcase this week!

    Reply
  11. https://plus.google.com/u/0/110525705200622001911/posts

    February 9, 2013 at 6:02 am

    “Early Numeracy” ended up being a very good posting.

    However, if it had more pics it would be perhaps even more effective.

    Regards ,Marta

    Reply

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