How Do You Teach Math With Gross Motor Activities?
Some children struggle learning numbers, addition and subtraction facts. Including these in a gross motor game makes learning easier and fun. To teach the basic counting skills cd ‘s using the body are the best. Count to 100 by exercising with music and ten different exercise groupings. Try counting by by five’s, two’s, and tens also. To learn about greater or less than try doing the “Aligator Chomp from the CD “ovin to Math 2” by Jack Hartmann. It teaches you to listen to two numbers and using your hands chomp the number that is greater or less. This is determined by right hand number or left hand number. One activity to try is placing jump ropes in circles all around the rug. Put numbers in the circles. Children jump to the numbers that are less than the one you call or greater than. Hopscotch using less or greater than numbers varies the traditional game. Throw a bean bag on the numbers only that are less and hop only on those numbers all the way up and all the way back. Variation i
