Skip Counting

Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's
Skip Counting
Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication and division? Skip counting also helps when learning to read a clock. Remember how the minute hand progresses as you skip count by 5's pointing to each number? Think of skip counting by 2's as you read a thermometer. Go done the Football field to Skip Count by 10's. This lens has rhymes, songs and activi...

Skip Counting Crabs by 10's
Crabs Have Ten Claws for Skip Counting
Stroll along the seashore early in the morning or just after the sun has set and you will see crabs scuttling across the sand; waving their claws. They slip down into their holes as you approach. Each of those crabs has ten legs. As we walk down the beach we begin to count the number of crab legs while skip counting by 10's. Ah-haw! Another teachable moment! The crabs on the beach became the focus of our math lesson for the day. Come join us as we learn to count by 10's while observing the ...

Skip Counting Activities
Skip Counting for Experts
Can you skip count by 2's? Can you skip count by 5's? What about skip counting by 10's, 6's or 7's? Once you know how to skip count by any number you become an Expert Skip Counter. Now that you can skip count by 2's, 3's, 4's and so on up to 12's or so, it's time to perfect your skills. These fun, creative, hands-on games, songs and activities will have you mixing up the number sequences, skipping from sequence to sequence while skip counting your way to memorization of the multiplication fa...

Kangaroo Math: It's Skip Counting Time!
Skip Count with the Kangaroos
The kangaroos have been learning to skip count by each of the numbers from 2 to 12. The Kangaroos hop on the 2's and discover the odd and even numbers. They skip count the 3's and discover diagonal patterns on the hundreds board. The kangaroos hop on each of the numbers and soon know all the number sequences up through 12. Come join us as we skip count games, pretend to be kangaroos while skip counting higher and higher numbers and prepare for memorizing the multiplication tables. Put on you...