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Tips for teaching numbers 1-20 Use manipulatives--pieces of cereal, small crackers, toothpicks, store-bought counters, small shapes cut from tagboard or posterboard--and numbers 1-20. You may use pre-made numbers in plastic or cardboard or you may make your own by writing the numbers on squares of posterboard or heavy paper with markers or crayons. If you can have the child write the numbers, under your direction, that is even better. Arrange the counters for the smallest number in front of the child, ask the child to count them and then find the correct number card and place it next to the counters. Proceed in the same way for the rest of the numbers, in order from smallest to largest. Next, collect the numbers and mix them up. Choose a pile of counters and spread the cards out in front. Ask the child to count the pieces and find the correct number that represents that amount. Practice with random numbers until your child is confident in matching them. If your child is having trouble, go back and practice them in order again before you do more random work. Give the numbers to the child to put the numbers in order, largest to smallest. Ask your child to say the number names as you point to them, first in order, then mixed up. Try backwards, too. Point out that all the "teen" numbers, from 11 to 19 have a 1 on the left side. Show the number 10 and add 1 counter for 11, 2 counters for 12, and so forth, up to 19, to show that these numbers are "10 plus." Let your child practice writing the numbers various ways, with crayons, markers, chalk, on white boards, with gel pens on dark paper, with fingers in salt or sand, in finger paint. Make the numbers out of modeling clay or pipe cleaners. Make sure your child can write all the numbers from 1 to 20 in order. Then dictate numbers in random order for the student to write. When your child can do all of this, you both are successful.
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