How to Teach your Child to Count ?

Nowadays, many of today's schools, with the child being in the first class of it requires the ability to add and subtract , and sometimes even the knowledge of the multiplication table . That is why many parents are trying to teach the child themselves these math activities at home. How to teach your child to deduct ? At what age to start training? These are the questions we will try to give an answer .

To begin with the child to engage in subtraction and addition , it is necessary that he was already familiar with the numbers . Typically, a three-year good children know how to count to 10, in 4-5 years they are quite capable of assimilating the score to a hundred. When a child is able to count well , you can start learning subtraction and addition.

Children usually first introduced to the rules of addition, since the number or add items easier. Once a child has learned addition , you can proceed to learning subtraction .

Basic principles of subtraction, you should explain to the child - is that of a larger number , the amount deducted minimal . It is easy to explain to the kid on the illustrative examples . To create a task , you can use special didactic cards with numbers or quantitative designs , you can draw these cards themselves. As well suited for training homogeneous small items : nuts , buttons , coins, various figures . Invent a situation familiar to the child where the protagonists act niche or familiar to kindergarten children .

For example, a hedgehog in the garden lumped 5 apples and carried them into the hole , but on the way met a squirrel and gave her , gave her two bulls eye. How many apples hedgehog brought home ? Or another example , your neighbor yearly 7 new machines , he gave you play 3 cars . How many machines left yearly ? If your child is already 4 years old , then the solution of these problems were you can write in the form of examples : 5-2 = 3, 7-3 = 4. But do not try to teach your child the subtraction only on solving examples. Still, it is still small and its main type of activity - it is a game . So play with him , ask puzzles and manipulate objects

During the lessons , remember that before you a little kid , so to focus on one thing for a long time it is still difficult . Therefore, change types of tasks . For example, first try to verbally formulate and solve an example , and then perform a task with visual materials ( with cards or objects ) , and then read the poem for a variety of subtraction ( such verses can be found in special editions for teaching children the account, which is now very much on the shelves ) , go back to the more difficult task - writing examples. Do not overdo exercise should last no more than 20-25 minutes. If you see ? that kid became distracted , lost interest in the process , better finished job. But this does not mean that we should forget about teaching .

To achieve results , such studies should be ongoing .
Just be creative in the child's learning subtraction . You can think of the situation of the game subtraction . Children usually like to play the guessing number . For example , you say, I guessed the number , and then subtracted from this number 5 , and I was left with 2 , I guessed what number ? If you see that your child is difficult to perceive the information orally , write an example on paper , leaving room for the hidden numbers. 

Then ask the child to think of himself by , or come up with a puzzle - situation.
In training it a rule to go from simple to complex, based on the principle of regularity classes , use of gaming techniques and vivid visual materials . Add to all this his patience and you need to teach your child to turn subtraction .