Make the game out of sticks. Counting sticks for preschoolers are both learning and play

Each of us has been familiar with such a basic guide since school as counting sticks. I remember when I went to 1st grade, for some reason my parents could not find factory-made sticks in stores, and for some time I and several other classmates had to carry matches with the sulfur heads removed to mathematics lessons)))

Of course, these days there is no such problem, although for the games I want to suggest today, colored popsicle sticks, matches and even pencils are quite suitable. We bought 2 identical sets of counting sticks for games and activities. In addition, we also have beautiful painted ice cream sticks, I’ll tell you about them next time.

Did you know that counting sticks can be used for more than just math and counting? Even the smallest children can play with them and develop in different directions at the same time!

For example, load sticks one at a time into the machine — good job for the development of fine motor skills. You can also name the colors of the sticks.

For older children, you can give a more complicated building: load 10 sticks into the machine (or 5 yellow, three pink, four orange and one green).

We sort the sticks by color.

Offer your baby doll plates that match the color of the sticks (in place of the plates, you can take ordinary sheets of colored paper or cardboard).

Ask them to arrange the sticks by color into matching plates.

“Drawing” with counting sticks

Why not draw by laying out various pictures from counting sticks? Depending on the age of the child, choose different methods and levels of difficulty:

• Laying out geometric shapes(left) and simple objects made from them: triangle + square = house (right).

You can lay out figures of different colors according to instructions, ask to repeat the same as your mother, or make the same figure, but of a different color.

And, of course, you can make calculations: how many sticks are needed to fold such a triangle, square, trapezoid? What shape can be made using only 3 sticks? What about 4?

• Laying out silhouettes along a template outline.

Make several template diagrams in advance: lay out various compositions from sticks on a sheet of paper and outline them with felt-tip pens desired color. The baby will need to place the sticks directly on the picture, selecting them according to the given color.

You can complicate the task by suggesting that you lay out the drawing not on a sheet of paper, but next to it, using the diagram as a sample.

• Another option for “drawing”: draw on sheets of paper elements of some objects, creatures, etc.: a face that can become the sun with the help of ray sticks, the silhouette of a hedgehog that needs to be added with needle sticks, crossbars that can become a fence .

Game "Do as I do"

The adult lays out the sticks in any color sequence (horizontally or vertically), and the child’s task is to repeat it.

Rug

Give your child a piece of mesh and show how to thread sticks through the holes. You can set a certain color sequence and ask to continue it. This game miraculously promotes the development of motor skills and attentiveness.

Collecting flowers

Give your child artificial flowers with holes in the middle and show them how to insert sticks into them as stems and collect flowers into a bouquet.

Sorting game with sticks

In addition, using counting sticks, you can make a sorter and a simulator for fine motor skills of your fingers!

For the base, use an ice cream/mayonnaise bucket or a tin can with non-sharp edges (for example, a mixture).

Glue sectors of colored paper onto the lid (we used self-adhesive), make holes with nail scissors - and a wonderful educational toy is ready! With its help, your baby will not only train his fingers by inserting sticks into the holes, but will also develop color perception, and with your help, he will learn colors.

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It is necessary to introduce the baby to basic geometric shapes. Show him a rectangle, a circle, a triangle. Explain what a rectangle (square, rhombus) can be. Explain what a side is and what an angle is. Why is a triangle called a triangle (three angles). Explain that there are other geometric shapes that differ in the number of angles.

Let the child make geometric figures from sticks and simply modify them. Tasks are given with gradual complication. The child first makes object images from sticks: houses, boats, simple buildings, furniture, then geometric shapes: squares, triangles, rectangles and quadrangles of different sizes and with different aspect ratios, and then again object images, but based on preliminary analysis and division complex shape highlighting geometric shapes. Geometric figures are now used as a template to determine the shape of objects.

You can ask him required dimensions, based on the number of sticks. Invite him, for example, to fold a rectangle with sides of three sticks and four sticks; a triangle with sides of two and three sticks.

Also make shapes of different sizes and shapes with different numbers of sticks. Ask your child to compare the shapes. Another option would be combined figures, in which some sides will be common.

For example, from five sticks you need to simultaneously make a square and two identical triangles; or make two squares out of ten sticks: large and small (the small square is made up of two sticks inside the large one).

By combining counting sticks, the child begins to better understand mathematical concepts (“number”, “more”, “less”, “same”, “figure”, “triangle”, etc.).

Using chopsticks is also useful to form letters and numbers. In this case, a comparison of concept and symbol occurs. Let the child match the number made up of sticks with the number of sticks that makes up this number.

Exercise “Do as I do”

Regular school counting sticks are also perfect for playing with two-year-olds. On a flat surface, the adult lays out some simple figure from sticks, adding one each time, and invites the child to do the same. So the baby gradually masters the action according to the model, still in the most elementary form:

a) how many sticks are enough to take to make a triangle? (Three.) Take three sticks and make a triangle;

b) how many sticks are enough to add to make a quadrilateral? (One.) Add one and make a quadrilateral. What does your quad look like? (Per square.),

c) fold such a lamp. What else does this look like?

d) fold the following boat:

e) put together a vase like this:

e) fold the following candy:

g) fold the TV:

h) come up with your own figure and make it out of sticks.

Design and transformation tasks

Exercise 1

Divide a rectangle of 6 sticks into 2 equal squares with one stick, a square of 4 sticks into 2 equal triangles, rectangles.

Exercise 2

Move one stick so that the house turns in the other direction.

Exercise 3

Arrange four sticks in a shape similar to a key to make three squares.

Exercise 4

What is the smallest number of sticks that need to be moved to remove debris from the dustpan?

Exercise 5

Move two sticks so that the cow is facing the other direction.

Exercise 6

In this figure, arrange three sticks so that you get four equal quadrangles.

Exercise 7

In the figure representing an arrow, rearrange four sticks to form four triangles.

Exercise 8

In a figure consisting of four squares, rearrange three sticks so that you get three identical squares.

Exercise 9

Rebuild the ship into a tank by moving six sticks.

Exercise 10

Rebuild the vase into a TV by moving five sticks.

Exercise 11

In a figure of six squares, remove three sticks so that four squares remain.

The ages of two to three years are called the “big leap year.” And indeed, between two and three years the child has brilliant achievements: speech develops intensively, purposefulness, self-awareness, and social interaction with peers appear. Children master creative activities: drawing, the simplest forms of design, children develop the ability to fantasize, and the foundations of intelligence are laid.

For a long time, counting sticks have become real “lifesavers” for children learning the basics of mathematics. On the pages of this section we have collected for you many interesting and entertaining games with counting sticks; classes on design, sensory; systems of exercises with sticks for the development of thinking and speech.

Promote the development of fine motor skills, ingenuity and intelligence; consolidation of initial knowledge of geometric figures and arithmetic calculation. Counting sticks are the most accessible and multifunctional teaching material!

We play with counting sticks and develop.

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Games - puzzles with counting sticks.

Older children preschool age They enjoy solving riddles, solving various puzzles, and love games of ingenuity. One of the most accessible types of ingenuity tasks are games with counting sticks. They are also called geometric ingenuity problems, since the solution involves the creation of various shapes and the transformation of some figures into others. During such games, preschoolers willingly overcome significant difficulties and can give up momentary desires that arise in the course of performing a particular game task. In addition to the pride of knowing one’s intelligence and confidence in one’s abilities, games - puzzles with counting sticks develop such qualities as perseverance, perseverance in achieving a goal, resourcefulness, and develop constructive skills, mental and creative activity.

To play, you will need a set of student counting sticks or any sticks of the same length and thickness, strips of cardboard, even matches from which the sulfur has previously been removed. If you play with children, you can give oral tasks. If a child plays alone, it is good to prepare cards on which the conditions of the game task are written (if he can read), or it is schematically indicated how many sticks should be taken, what transformation should be made and what figure should be the result.

For example: from 7 sticks you need to make 3 triangles.

It is good if children come up with problems themselves and write (model) them for solution by other people (children or adults).

Tasks - puzzles with counting sticks can vary in difficulty level:

To compose given figures from a certain number of sticks. For example, to make a rhombus from 5 sticks:

Rectangle of 8:

To transform shapes by removing a given number of sticks.

For example, remove 4 sticks to make 3 squares:

Remove 8 sticks to make a cross:

To transform figures by rearranging sticks.

For example, move 1 stick so that the house faces the other way:

Arrange 3 sticks so that the cow waves her tail and looks back:

When children have mastered all 3 difficulty levels of puzzle games, encourage their creativity in creating their own variations logical problems. Come up with longer and more complex tasks. Using sequential transformations, compose stories and fairy tales.

In the meantime, you are just learning, we invite you to guess the author’s problem - a puzzle:

We'll take 6 sticks

And let's build a new house!

If 2 is rearranged,

They won’t be able to live in that house,

It is no longer a house, but a flag.

Who can do this?

I wanted to dig-

I need to put the stick away

And shift the other one.

So I'll get the spatula!

Is it ready for you?

Let's move the stick again

And let's take one below

And we'll put it in a box.

The chair is out!

Relax!

How many sticks? Count.

Did you count?

There are four of them!

Spread your legs wider

The back must be put down -

The chair will serve as a table!

If you're not tired of it,

We continue our work:

Let's make a road sign

Or a triangular flag.

2 shifted again

And we got the arrow!

Only the arrow broke -

There is only one stick left.

We'll put it on the table -

We can make a triangle!

GAMES WITH COUNTING STICKS “Nimble fingers.” Develop fine motor skills You can use your baby's hands from about nine months of age, when he begins to develop a pincer grip (he begins to grasp objects with his thumb and index finger). Use a knife or scissors to make a slit in the counting stick case and show your little one how to put sticks in it one at a time. Such a game can captivate a child for a long time, because children love to put objects into holes and hide them. But the baby should play under your supervision, because... at this age, everything that the eye sees is immediately put into the mouth by quick fingers. Arrange by color. At about the same age, you can begin to teach your baby to sort sticks by color. To begin, select sticks of two colors and show how they can be arranged into two different piles. You can invite your child to put the sticks into boxes or bags. When the baby learns to cope with the task, add sticks of another color. This game develops sensory perception, the ability to compare, find similarities and differences, and introduces the child to logical operations analysis and synthesis at the elementary level. In the world of plasticine. Usually at the age of one to one and a half years, the child begins to be offered a variety of creative tasks, including, of course, games with plasticine. The ability to combine various materials in the creative process develops not only imagination and creativity, but also the ability to think outside the box. Counting sticks go well with plasticine. They can become: thorns in a hedgehog, a stem in a flower, a tree trunk, a fence in a plasticine world, a pipe in a plasticine house, the arms and legs of a plasticine man, a mushroom leg, and many other different objects that your imagination will tell you. Let's play geometry. When to start introducing a child to mathematics, parents decide for themselves. Someone is already hanging numbers and geometric shapes above the crib... And someone is waiting until the child is four or five years old. Or when the baby himself shows interest in mathematics. In any case, learning mathematics with counting sticks is very convenient. They will not only help you learn to count, but also introduce you to geometric shapes, help you explain very clearly and clearly to your child what an angle, a side is, how a square differs from a rectangle, how you can get another from one shape, and much, much more. You can: lay out geometric shapes from counting sticks lay out geometric shapes from counting sticks along a drawn contour play transformations: make others from some geometric figures. A child can simply watch these magical transformations, and an older child (from 4-5 years old) can be asked to complete tasks himself: “How to make a rhombus from a square? And a parallelogram? How, by adding one stick, turn a square into a trapezoid? into triangles? How many sticks must be removed from a square so that it turns into a triangle? And how many sticks must be added so that the square turns into a rectangle ?" If you practice with sticks of the same color, then all changes by adding the number of sticks (from a triangle - a square, from a square - a trapezoid or rectangle, etc.) for greater clarity, you can do it using sticks of a different color. For example, you show a child a figurine, then he turns away, and you perform the transformation. After this, the child must look at the result and answer the question “what has changed” and try to understand how it happened. introduce geometric concepts Using sticks, you can very clearly and clearly explain to your child what a side (stick) is and what an angle is (the place where one stick meets another). You can explain to your child what a diameter is and why the size of a circle depends on the diameter. To do this, just place two sticks next to each other on a sheet of paper and draw a circle of the appropriate diameter around them. Two sticks are the diameter of the circle, one stick is the radius. And if you take three sticks and draw a new circle, it will turn out larger than the previous one, since the length of the diameter has become larger. "Cognitive paths". By the age of two, a child becomes familiar with the concepts of “wide”/“narrow”, “long”/“short”. This can be done by laying out tracks of counting sticks. Show your child how to make a wide or long path out of sticks. We put the sticks side by side - one next to the other - the path turns out to be wide, but short. And if you put one stick to the tip of another, the path will turn out to be long, very long, but narrow. We take one stick - this is a short path. We put another stick on it - the path has become longer. One more - the path became even longer. This way you can introduce your child to the concepts of “short”, “long”, “longest”, “shortest”. The child will see that the more sticks there are in the path, the longer it will be. And if you use sticks together with plasticine, you can introduce the child to the concepts of “high” and “low”. Learning to count. Of course, counting sticks are an excellent material for teaching counting. At the age of approximately two years, the child already begins to operate with the concepts of “one” and “many”. He begins to count to two, and by the age of three or three and a half years he counts within five (this refers to the quantitative recognition of objects, and not the mechanical naming of a sequence of numbers). Using counting sticks, you can clearly demonstrate the composition of a number, get acquainted with the simplest mathematical operations of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and study the concepts of number and quantity. For children two to three years old Take one stick from the pile and place it separately. The kid must show where there is one stick and where there are many. Take two sticks, tell the child that there are two sticks. Look together for other pairs of objects (two arms, two legs, two eyes, maybe two chairs in the room, etc.). Explain that if you take one and another, you get two. Teach your child to correlate the number of objects and their numerical designation. Draw cards with numbers from one to five. Show him no more than one new card per day with a number and the corresponding number of sticks. On the first day, place a card with the number 1 and one stick in front of him, the next day add a card with the number 2, and so on. Place cards with numbers from one to five vertically, and next to each card the corresponding number of sticks. Please pay attention to the child that the number of sticks is constantly increasing by one (one and one more - two, two and one more - three, three and one more - four and so on). For children from four years old To study the relationship between number and quantity, take cards from 0 to 10. Lay out the cards vertically, and place the corresponding number of sticks next to each card. Please pay attention to the child that the number of sticks increases by one all the time. Give your child cards with numbers. He must take the appropriate number of sticks. We study the composition of the number. How can you decompose the number 5? For clarity, take two sticks different colors and lay out the number 5 from them: for example, two blue and three yellow. Or one blue and four yellow, etc. Invite your child to guess for himself how many sticks he needs to add to a certain number. For example, you lay out four sticks. How many more sticks do you need to add to make it ten? With the help of sticks, you can clearly explain to a 5-6 year old child what an “example” is and how the operations of subtraction and addition are indicated. Take two sticks of one color and three sticks of a different color. Ask your child how many sticks there are. Then place a plus sign between the sticks of different colors, and put their numerical designations above the sticks (2 × 3). To explain the subtraction operation, take five sticks and a card with the number 5. Then take two sticks, and next to the card with the number put a card with a minus sign and a card with the number 2. Ask the child how many sticks are left (cards can be replaced with numbers from the magnetic alphabet). If you see that the child understands your explanations, you can introduce him to the equal sign. Lay out the expression using chopsticks, and the child will also have to use sticks to lay out the answer after the equal sign. When the child begins to confidently cope with the task, replace the sticks with numerical symbols. Don't give it to your child complex examples With large numbers , solve problems within ten. It is important for a child to understand the meaning and principles of addition and subtraction, and later multiplication and division. Once your child can add and subtract within ten, you can introduce multiplication and division. For this you will need sticks and cards with numbers and some toys. For example, take figurines of a cow, horse and sheep. You have three animals (place a card with the number three in front of the child). Each animal has three tasty carrots (place three red or orange sticks in front of each animal and take another card with the number three). How to calculate how many carrots animals have? To do this, you need to multiply three (put a multiplication sign between the cards with numbers) by three, that is, take three times three. Count how many carrots you will get if there are two animals, and each one takes three carrots. What if you give three animals two each? To understand the principle of division, take several stick carrots and ask your child to divide them equally between three animals. The number of carrots each toy ends up with will be the result of division. Divide different numbers of carrots between different numbers of animals. You can show your child that it is not always possible to divide objects equally without leaving a remainder. Using sticks and cards with numbers, you can explain to your child how a number differs from a number and from a quantity. To do this you will need sticks and cards with numbers from zero to nine. Explain to your child that there are only 10 numbers. When a number represents a quantity, it becomes a number. All numbers are made up of numbers. You can show your child large two and three digit numbers and name them. Let the child name the numbers from which they are made. For example, in order to write the number 10, you need to take two digits one and zero. The number of objects can be very large, so in order to somehow designate them, numbers and figures were invented. Together with your child, place the corresponding number of sticks next to the number cards. If your child can already count and perform simple operations within 10, you can move on to introducing two-digit numbers. To demonstrate what a ten is, display it in one color and the second order numbers in another. Eleven is ten blue sticks and one yellow, twelve is ten blue and two yellow, and so on. We draw with sticks. You can lay out anything you want from sticks on a plane. Make a road out of them, and the child will be happy to roll cars along it. Lay out a pedestrian crossing, take the dolls and learn the rules traffic. Using sticks, you can plant colorful flowers on the floor, draw houses, cars, angular cats or dogs, birds and fish, little people - whatever you want. The more sticks, the more interesting. This game perfectly develops a child's imagination. Sticks - designer. To play you will need counting sticks and plasticine balls. By connecting sticks using plasticine, you can build a variety of three-dimensional shapes. We develop not only imagination, creative thinking and spatial perception, but also get acquainted with geometric bodies (cube, cone, prism). "Logical chains". Laying out logical chains with a certain rhythm using sticks helps the child develop sensory perception, attentiveness, logical thinking,sequence understanding. This game can have two options: either you lay out your chain of sticks, and the child must lay out the same chain as yours, or you start laying out a chain with a certain rhythm and ask the child to continue it (the second option, of course, is more difficult). "Rhythm" can be a changing sequence of colors of sticks or their arrangement. Start with the simplest chains, for example, alternating yellow and green sticks. Make the tasks more difficult gradually. You can change the location of the sticks, place them horizontally or vertically, and use different color combinations. Substitute toys. Ability to use play activity Substitute objects are a necessary element in the development of children's play. The simplest example of this phenomenon is a palm placed on the ear and representing a telephone receiver. A child can enthusiastically move a piece of bread around the table like a car, feed dolls with cake cubes and shoot with his index finger at an invisible enemy. Counting sticks fit perfectly into role-playing games. Children most often imagine them as spoons and spoons and feed them to dolls; sometimes the sticks become tiny automatic weapons and guns, and from a bunch of sticks placed in a toy saucepan you can cook excellent spaghetti.