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Skip
Counting
The ability to count coins
will come much easier to a student who has mastered skip
counting beforehand.
Classroom Activities
Sing
Your Way to Skip Counting
Children will
love singing The Skip Counting Song
to the tune of "Skip to My Lou"! A
printable Adobe .pdf file
is provided here so that teachers may photocopy the lyrics
for each student to take home if desired.
Follow
the Bouncing Ball
The rhythm of
a plain rubber ball can help teach skip counting!
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Organize
students into cooperative groups of four or of equal
sizes
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Ask
the class "Who can count the number of people in
the class the fastest?"
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Choose
a student to stand up and count the class. He/she will
most likely count by ones to come up with an answer.
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Now
ask the class "Is there a faster or easier way
to count everyone than (student's name) used?
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Demonstrate
counting by twos to the children and then lead them
in counting the class by twos.
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Begin
bouncing a ball while students skip count in unison
to it's bounce.
- Give several
students (or the whole class!) a chance to come to the front
of the room and bounce the ball while the others skip count
in unison to it's bounce.
Pass the Paper
Cooperative table
groups compete in writing to 100s by twos!
- Organize children
into cooperative table groups of four or of equal sizes.
- Each child should
have his/her own pencil.
- Pass one sheet
of paper out to each table group.
- Explain the
rules. "We are going to have a race to 100! When I
say "GO" the first person at each table will write
2, the next will write 4, the next will write 6, and so
on until your table has written all the way to 100."
- Give students
instructions for how they will pass the paper (ie. clockwise,
counterclockwise, "to the person on your left",
etc.)
- Tell the class
that the first group to finish skip counting to 100 will
let you know by putting their pencils down on the table
and sitting quietly.
Skip Counting
Classroom Activities
Ideas from Tammy Payton - Milken National
Educator '98
Franklin Science Online Museum Educator 1998-2001
- We always had
one inch square grid paper. I would slice them into a
row/column so that it would display 100 squares if you counted
by 2's, 5's,
and 10's. For example, the 2's paper was cut into 5 columns
with 10 rows. So
the students would fill out each paper (this helps them
see the pattern).
Their grid
paper would look like:
2, 4, 6, 8, 10
12, 14, 16, 18, 20
22, 24, 26, 28, 30
etc. to 100
The grid paper
for 5's was cut into 2 columns by 10 rows and looked like:
5, 10
15, 20
25, 30
35, 40
The grid paper
for 10's was 10 columns by 1 row.
10, 20, 30, 40, etc.
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(Do this is
a large group activity) Most teachers have a 1-100 chart
in
their room (large-about 26 X3 6 inches - I laminated mine)
Then give
kids different colored vis-a-vis pens. I would have them
circle all of the 2's in
one color, the 5's in a different color, and the ten's
in another color.
Then we would look at the pattern each time a new group
was circled.
- (Another skip
counting large group activity)
I would select a number such as 35 and circle it with a
vis-a-vis on the large 100 chart in my room. I would ask
different kids to come up and circle what would be 5 more
than that number, what is 10 more than that number, what
is 2 more than that number. We would continue randomly selecting
a number and checking out what is 2, 5, or 10 more than
that number.
Other Websites with
Interactive Skip Counting Activities
Totwood
First School - Norfolk, U.K.
has some delightful interactive activities. Children will
enjoy the colorful graphics thoroughly and learn valuable
counting skills at the same time! These activities can also
be accessed quickly under "Online Activities"
in our For Students section under.
If the games do not work for you, you need Macromedia's
free Flash Player available for download
here.
Froggy
Hops
Add 1s or 10s to a number with the help of a friendly frog.
100
Square
Interactive practice adding 10 to a number using an online
100 square.
Octopus
Game
Adding 10 to a number below 60.
Fairground
Target Game
Interactive practice counting by 10s using a duck shoot!
AAAMath.com
is a wonderful online resource full of interactive math
activities.
These specific pages teach skip counting skills. Each page
has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games
about counting.
Counting
By Twos
Counting
By Fives
Counting
By Tens
The
National Council of Teacher Mathmatics collection of Electonic
Examples includes "Learning
about Number Relationships and Properties of Numbers--Using
Calculators and Hundred Boards: Patterns to 100 and Beyond"
In this two-part example virtual hundred boards and
calculators furnish a visual way of highlighting and displaying
various patterns and relationships among numbers. Using
calculators and hundred boards together, teachers can encourage
students to communicate their thinking with others. In the
first part, Displaying Number Patterns, the same patterns
are displayed on a calculator and on a hundred board simultaneously.
In this second part, Patterns to 100 and Beyond, students
examine number patterns, using a calculator to move beyond
100.
©
Patricia Knox - Online Museum Educators 2001
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