Tracing Numbers

1) Learning objectives: To improve children’s counting ability within 10, help them to transfer from counting by pointing to silent counting, and help them to cultivate a correct writing habit of number.

2) Theoretical guidance: The “Kindergarten Education Guidelines (provisional)” determines the goal of children’s math education: “to feel relationship between numbers and quantity and to experience the importance and interest of math through daily life and games.” According to such idea, the “Tracing Numbers” makes math a game, a kind of life and real world scenario.

3) Creative learning: Based on children’s love of delicious dessert and through counting desserts, the game “Tracing Numbers” improves children’s counting ability, helps them to transfer from counting by pointing to silent counting, and further applies the correlation between numbers and quantity. Children are required to choose the correct number of desserts and write them correctly, which stimulates children’s interest in learning numbers and helps them to cultivate correct writing habit.

4) Suggestions for parents: Parents can help children to learn math and to use math through everyday context. For example, ask children to distribute cookies, 8 for dad, 7 for mom, 6 for grandma, 9 for grandpa, and 5 for children themselves. Such method can skillfully transform the mathematical purposeinto the action and rules of the scenario itself and enable children to get psychological satisfaction from the activities. The game not only reflects the value of math but also improves children’s interest in math.