How to teach a child to count in the mind?

Learning the account promotes the development of the child's mental abilities and helps him to better master life's realities.

To teach a child to count in the mind, you need to start the account as soon as possible with the help of poems, nursery rhymes. Then you can smoothly switch to learning the account using handouts and counting sticks, the successful mastery of which will be a signal to start learning the account in your mind.

To begin with, the child must learn the score to 10, learn how the figures look, master the concepts of "more", "less", "evenly." To do this, you need to "plunge" with the child into a world where everything is connected with numbers. For example, dressing, counting buttons, on a walk counting machines, flowers, birds, divide between family members candy. By learning the account, you can go to the first simple tasks for addition.

Exercise to the account in the mind

First you can train the account within five.

  1. For this, mobile games are suitable. We give the baby a basket in which we will collect berries. We spread the berries on the floor and ask them to collect them, counting: to one berry add one more and get two berries; to two berries we add one and get three berries. It is important to give the child to understand that adding one, we get the next largest number. Then the same game can be done, taking out one berry from the basket.
  2. Then you can proceed to add and subtract two items. First, use handouts or sticks, and to further develop the account, you can use the method of adding visible objects to the invisible. For example, we have three sweets (we show them) and we need to add two more to them (imagine). Such exercises contribute to the development of a quick count in the mind.
  3. At the same time, as children learn to count in the mind, they must master mathematical terms: add, subtract, equal.
  4. Pay attention to the child's rearrangement of the summands. Take five sweets: two to yourself and three to your child and show him that 2 + 3 = 5 and 3 + 2 = 5. After you have mastered the new action on the subjects, be sure to practice it verbally.

With a child who learned to count well within 5, you can begin to learn to count to 10. With the help of handouts (sticks, carved animals), you need to consider the composition of numbers. For example, the number 7 is 2 + 5, 3 + 4, 1 + 6. Children remember visually well, so with the help of identical objects they will quickly remember how to count in the mind within 10.

Do not worry, if not everything will turn out quickly. Do not go with a child who can not count with the help of objects, at the expense of the mind. Daily training will definitely show your results.