What Math equipment you will need to follow my lessons

 I maybe should have done this post a first but better late than never :)

When I teach my kiddos Math there are a certain few resources I use all the time. If you are following my lessons that it would make sense for to make sure you have the same things.

1. Dry Erase board (sometimes I call it white board in the plans) and pens

This is invaluable. Most children love writing on these which gives them a fun, novelty value to up the excitement for Math classes. They also give the children a very easy way to start again and wipe off what may not have worked. A lot of kiddos like this reassurance. Nothing is permanent, at which point they are more able to give something a go.

2. Dice

Each of my kids has a set of five 1-6 dice and a set of what we call the fancy dice that includes 1-10, 1-20 etc. Dice are a fun way of generating numbers for practice equations. They also add an element of fun to the math.

3. Place value set

This is a really good visual for helping kiddos to understand how our base 10 system works. if we start to use them now it just helps to build understanding.

4. Counting blocks of some kind

blocks that link together are awesome for this but anything that you have a lot of that can be used for sorting and counting.

5. Tape Measure

Kiddos love to measure things so to have their own little tape measure to use is so much fun. Again it is something we can enjoy using during these early years with no pressure. You can walk around with your kiddos measuring things and just helping them to read the large number on the tape.

6. Money

A set of money is always useful. Exposure to the different coins and notes starts to get the kiddos used to the different values and then we can play shops.

7. Ball

I tend to play a lot of counting games and ball always make them more fun. Plus the kiddos can gain some ball skills too.

8. Counting Caterpillar (Melissa and Doug)

I love this caterpillar for Math - we can do so many number explorations with it.

https://www.melissaanddoug.com/products/counting-caterpillar-classic-toy9. Games

Games

My previous post went into detail about some of the games we have and use. I would definitely recommend getting a few to play. I would definitely recommend Math for Love Tiny Polka.

https://www.amazon.com/Math-Love-Tiny-Polka-Dot/dp/B01N1UUHP4