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Top 5 Activities Your Kid's Preschool Must Organize to Sharpen Their Maths Skills

Author: Montessori Preschool Singapore
by Montessori Preschool Singapore
Posted: Apr 26, 2020

Selecting a preschool for your little one is as important as selecting his/her higher studies. The curriculum followed in preschool plays a major role in the brain development of the kids. Therefore, it is important to find out the curriculum a school follows before choosing a preschool for your little one. The concept of a bilingual education system is gaining popularity in Singapore and parents are focusing more on the Chinese language. Therefore, the Chinese enrichment class for preschool is gaining popularity here.

Various subjects are taught in preschool and Math is one among them. Math is one of them. It is interesting to those who understand the concepts and intimidating to those who don't. If you closely observe, you can see children using math skills throughout their daily activities. Most children start understanding addition and subtraction even before school through their everyday interactions. Below are the top 5 activities your kid's Chinese preschool in Singapore must organize to sharpen their Math skills.

1. Number Sense

The concept of understanding numbers i.e. the ability to count forward accurately and later backward. Addition and subtraction are complex skills for a pre-schooler, yet they can count the number of objects in a box thereby learning addition. One can recognize the difference between more and less. When a kid has 4 chocolates and is asked to share 1 with the neighbour, the child will immediately recognize that he/she has fewer chocolates that they previously did.

2. Spatial sense

The ability to recognize shapes, size, position, space, direction, and movement. One of the examples of spatial sense is puzzles. They not only learn shape names but also can compare them, sort them, classify them, and draw them. Children learn to group all triangles in a place where a triangle is drawn or place all yellow objects inside a circle where yellow color is indicated.

3. Pattern

Patterns are things that repeat in a logical way. Patterns help children develop logical and reasoning skills. They use patterns to understand and predict what comes next. E.g. children will learn to place specific items in a specific order that repeats like placing red and green objects in a similar pattern like red, green, red, green, etc.

4. Estimation

The ability to measure the amount or size of something. For pre-schoolers, it is identifying bigger and smaller, more and less, etc. A child can recognize the difference between a big ball and a small ball, more chocolates and fewer chocolates.

5. Problem-solving

The ability to think through a problem using past knowledge and recognizing there is more than one way to the answer using logical skills. A child will eventually try more than one way to achieve the desired result. For example, a child will try to drop a triangle inside all the holes of various shapes and check until he/she figures out where to drop the triangle.

Apart from Math, enrolling your child in a Chinese preschool in Singapore brings you lots of other benefits. Exposure to more than one language will help shape your kids' brains. They gain confidence and become more adaptable. They also learn to appreciate different cultures. Chinese enrichment class for preschool creates an intellectual environment where math is logical, language is fun, and science is practical. Look no further, therefore, if you are planning for a bilingual and advanced education system.

About the Author

Sam Shaw owns a Chinese kindergarten and she is a pro at managing kids. She runs a Montessori preschool and makes every possible effort to transform a kid’s future and make it better.

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