Children in small classes are usually 3 years old, and 3-year-old children begin to be sensitive to numbers. At this time, although the children have not been specially trained in mathematics, they already have the desire to count. For example, if he holds several toys in his hand, he will mutter to himself right or wrong: "1, 8, 3 ..." This messy number shows that children are eager for numbers.

There are many ways to help children develop this ability. For example, when a mother tells her children, "Your clothes are missing two buttons" and "We need three more plates", she is taking this opportunity to teach her children the concept of numbers.

The method used at first was to count money. Change is a counting method to attract children's attention. Give the child 1 and five dimes. So that children can learn to count to 10.

It can be said that there is nothing more attractive to children than coins used in daily life, and there is no more practical training than changing change. It is precisely because this kind of activity is closely related to children's daily life that it has greatly aroused their interest.

After trying this learning method, parents can help their children practice numbers more systematically. At this time, you can use 10 branches with different lengths, the shortest is 10 cm, each branch is increased by 10 cm, and the longest is 1 m long. Red and blue appear alternately every 10 cm on the stick.

When a child arranges these sticks in order of length, his parents ask him to count the red and blue marks from the shortest one. When counting each stick, start with 1 Next, let him name each stick from short to long according to the number of marks contained on each stick. Let the child count like this, and let the child verify whether his count is correct, which will make him very interested and can be repeated many times.

Then, mix these sticks together Parents take one from it and ask their children to count the marks on it, such as 5. Next, the parents gave him a stick to tell the difference.

This exercise can be repeated in many ways. Through practice, the child learned to name each stick. We can now call these sticks "1", "2" and so on.

When children accurately read the number stick, parents can buy some colored cards with numbers, tell their children "This is the number 1 and this is the number 2", and then remind them "Give me 1, give me 2" and so on, so that children can recognize different number symbols.