Category:
Counting
Does your child already know what is more and what is less? Who is bigger and who is smaller? Then he or she is ready for the question "How much". At the beginning there is no need to know numbers. Of course, your child will gradually learn them. First verbally and symbols later. When it comes to counting do not forget games like ludo or similar dice games.
Skills:
Math
In this section you can find various activities that develop children’s mathematical and numerical ideas, i.e. their ability to cope with the concepts of smaller/bigger, less/more, before/after, first/last, etc., as well as activities that help them understand numbers and their relationships. When children learn to count, it is very convenient to count objects in real life (e.g. stairs, cars and lamps on the street, ball throws, etc.), to better connect abstract mathematical concepts with reality. A very good tool for practicing addition and subtraction are stairs, which can be used in many ways. If your child does not like doing math on paper, does not force him or her to do so, but rather teach him or her the math through games. For example, you can feed toy animals with Lego bricks or send orders to each other by train, and so on.
Visual perception
These activities aim at training eyes to find visual differences, as well as at training eyes ability to follow lines (or another set direction). To be successful the child must fix a certain image pattern in his or her memory and then he or she compares it with other images. Well-developed visual perception is the key ability influencing correct reading. If your child has a problem with tasks of this type, it is possible that he or she might have difficulty to learn read fluently in the future. This is the main reason why to do this type of exercise with children in early age. A suitable non-paper alternative to train visual perception is, for example, the game ‘Guess what has changed!’.