At first you might notice that you child needs to think about the total number of toys they will clean, but pretty soon they will just remember. We love to choose one specific difficult fact and focus on this for a few days before changing the fact. You can help your child to practice any multiplication facts. Multiplication is so easy to build into this clean up game. If you work with sets of 10, you can work on place value too. You children could provide this as 2 sets and 4 toys or 24 toys. After asking about finish 1 set and how many sets they need to finish, you could ask how many more toys they need to finish total. Take the above example where your child needs to clean up 30 toys. If your child is ready for larger numbers, you could work with the total too. As they finish a set, you could ask how many more sets they need to complete. If they have cleaned up 6 toys, you could ask how many more toys they need to clean to finish a set. For example, let’s say you asked your child to clean up 3 sets of 10. As they clean, they can subtract out the toys they cleaned or the sets they cleaned. SubtractionĬleaning up in sets makes it super easy to work on subtraction with your children. Our measurement systems in America are often divided in halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths, so making sets of 2, 3, 4, and 8 could help with developing fractions too. Sets of 12 are great for teaching about time. 16 is another common computer set which works well with binary. Why not try out sets of 2 so you can introduce binary to your child. While most people love sets of 10 or 5, we enjoy using crazy numbers too. So many ways to adjust this task to your child. Maybe your children wants less sets, so you ask them to do 2 sets of 20. But if 10 is too big of a number, you could also try 8 sets of 5 or 5 sets of 8. Maybe you want them to do 4 sets of 10 or 10 sets of 4. So if you think there are about 40 toys on the floor, you could ask your child to clean these toys up in different ways. Figure out the closest multiplication fact to get to this number. If at a quick glance, you can estimate the number of toys, this is easy. We love to vary the number of sets and items in each set to match the area they need to clean up. Instead, they will complete bigger sets or more sets before needing to tell you what they have completed. With time, they may not need as much external motivation. Moreover, they will want to share this with you and you can provide the positive praise, external motivation, they need to continue. This feeling of accomplishment, internal motivation, goes a long way to getting that second and third set done. My children love the feeling of getting 1 set completed. You’ve given them the to-do list of 3 sets and the short-term goal of 10 toys. They clean up 30 toys either way, but they are much more engaged and productive when cleaning up 3 sets of 10. This task seems much more manageable for a children then asking them to pick up 30 toys. This can be as simple as asking your child to clean up 3 sets of 10.
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