Effective and fun math teaching

How to start math for UKG and grade 1. You should be ready to engage these kids every 20 minutes in the online class with different activities. Plan ahead on the activities. You can plan to do one activity per class for grade 1. You should plan to do one broadcast call to engage the children. It is preferable to combine your first grader with one or two higher grade students for multiple batches.   The kids are generally playful so it is difficult to engage them for more than 30 minutes at a time with the worksheets. The class can be tailored to have 20 min of worksheets, then whiteboard activity, then go back to worksheets. Try to identify each kid’s natural interests. Apart from cuemath hours, try to incorporate games  with a zoom call once a month. Plan an event once a month over zoom with some math riddles or instant quiz. Try some new ideas to teach concepts using the whiteboard and Cueing. The easiest chapters for first graders are shapes and patterns and measurement.So ...

It is a difficult task to introduce multiplication to younger kids. Over the years I have found that some methods work better than others.  Let us go back to the hundred chart once again. If you remember the hundred chart, we can use it to skip count early multiplication tables. So in this  way, we can do skip count by 2, 5 and 10 first. If the child catches the pattern, you can go upto 20 on skip by 2.  After that make him or her understand that through finger counting. For example, 2 x 1 = 2, Use the pinky finger to say 2, then ring finger to say 4 etc. Writing in a book.  Then comes writing it in a book. Each time let the child count forward skipping by 2 and write that down in a book.  5 tables  Now you know the pattern. Count again in fingers through 5, 10, 15 etc. You can show  how to write through 5 counting numbers, you can fill some numbers and make the student fill the rest. There are so many innovative ways to think. 10 tables Sa...