- 1). Ask your child's teacher if the school offers free courses online. Your child's teacher may offer lesson summaries, practice pages, learning links or printable activities/worksheets on a website or by email. Some teachers also utilize web podcasts to create extra lessons, reviews and games for video learning. In addition, go to your local library.
- 2). Point your child to learning sites that offer interactive number and counting games such as Learning Planet or Disney's Kaboose Funschool (see resources). Children can click and drag images to learn how to see numbers as both symbols (numerals) and objects, count numbers sequentially (1, 2, 3 ... ), visually recognize out-of-sequence numbers, and apply numbers and counting to real-world uses (counting money, using a clock and reading the time). In addition, these sites offer timed number games to increase a child's ability to rapidly recognize numbers and number combinations as a foundation for more complex math lessons.
- 3). In addition to games, use interactive and/or printable activity worksheets offered by learning websites like BlueBonkers in the resource section or DLTK's Kidzone (http://www.kidzone.ws/math/index.htm). Interactive and printable worksheets offer practice support for lessons and games learned online or can teach a child how to draw or write numbers. Keep in mind though that if you don't have a tablet pen or touch screen, your child can only learn to trace or draw using a mouse and should also work with physical writing tools on printed worksheets to practice handwriting numbers.
- 4). Utilize online non-English language and English as a second language (ESL) study resources to learn numbers. These resources can help students who speak two or more languages to be able to count, read, write and use numbers in real-world situations in more than one geographic setting (for example, a child living in the United States who speaks two languages at home). They can also help people who only know one language to be able to use numbers in the primary language of another linguistic region when traveling.
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