During your child’s early years, they will need to build a solid math foundation to help them learn math easier as they progress.
Some grade school children might find math topics such as fractions, difficult to understand. This is because of the complexities of the topics, but with your patience and constant practice using various hands-on manipulatives and fun kindergarten worksheets, they will get over the difficulties.
Math manipulatives will help your children understand some following concepts better.
- Place Value
When teaching your kindergarten kids how to count number larger than 10, place value will make their learning easier. Without place value, your children might find themselves struggling with numbers. Place value helps your kids easily understand and solve equations with large numbers. Also, place values lay a good foundation for your child’s mental math skills.
- Fractions
Your children would have no business with solving fractions until at least the third grade. However, you need to get them prepared and familiar with fractions before that time, so that they do not find fractions entirely difficult.
With familiar items and images like pie charts and even foods, you can show your children visual representations of fractions to make the topic less frustrating for them.
- Money skills
While most people now use credit or debit cards and checking accounts, cash still remains king. Understanding how to count money and the value of money is a skill your kids must develop early enough.
Since dealing with money is unavoidable, you can help your kids understand the value of money with play currency and similar learning materials.
- Geometry
For your kids to understand designing and building objects, they must grasp the concept of geometry. Every object has a shape, and some of the common shapes like square, triangle, and circle can be used as examples for your kindergarten kids.
It will be easy for your kids to understand the geometric shapes found in these fun math worksheets. Give them more examples with physical 3D geometric shapes like colorful blocks and geoboards.
- Measurement and Data
Kindergarten kids are expected to identify and differentiate objects according to their shapes. They are also expected to understand the concept of size and measurement. That is, they can arrange objects in the order of biggest to smallest, and so on.