Toss the Frogs Game

Children love playing with frog counters. A bucket of frogs can help children memorize their math facts while playing a fun game of tossing the frogs. The game is quite simple and yet hilariously fun. Decide on anumber that your child needs to learn. For example, we will pick 5. The numbers in the fact family for the number 5 are:

0+5=5

1+4=5

2+3=5

3+2=5

4+1=5

5+0=5

To adults that seems so obvious but to young children just learning their math facts, lots of experience manipulating objects is needed before these facts become internalized. That's where this fun game comes in.

There are dozens of games you can play with your frog counters. Place some Counting Frogs in your sensory table along with potting soil, bird or grass seed and a spray bottle of water. Allow the children to play with the frogs in the sensory table and let their imaginations take them where they wish. Be sure to count the number of frogs before you allow the children to play if you would like to keep track of the number of frogs in the table. 

After a couple of days the bird or grass seed will begin to grow. Ask the children if they found it easier or harder to find the frogs. 

Counting Frogs can be used to as playing pieces in any game. They can be used to help with homework when completing worksheets.

Teachers have found over the years that young children or children learning new concepts can understand and internalize the new concepts best when presented in a concrete way. Math can be difficult for children when required to learn it only through abstrace numbers written on a page.

Here I have suggested to you that Frogs Counters as math manipulatives. Children find math more fun with frog counters. A bucket of Frog Counters will help your child transition from concrete to abstrace thinking when it comes to doing math problems.