Learn How To Do Skip Counting By Two

Skip counting is pretty similar to counting forward. Your kids will sharpen their counting with this game. Skip counting plays an important role in the development of ease in calculation, number sense and as provides the basic concepts of multiplication and division. The overall goal of the games for skip counting is to create count fluency. Skip counting is a counting by a number that is not 1 or counting forward by numbers other than 1.

Skip counting is used in our daily routine in counting numbers in sports, spending money while shopping, or even counting large numbers. The game activity can also be supplemented with worksheets for skip counting that you can find in the worksheets section of this website. This will help to save a lot of time in multiplication and division.

Skip Counting By 2 in math

In skip count, we keep adding the same number to the previous number and then increasing by that same number each time. In skip count by 2, you will start counting at the number increase by 2 each time. So starting at 0, the next number will be 0+2=2, then 2 + 2=4, then 4+2=6, and so on. This also provides an identical pattern like 2, 4, 6, 8, and so on.

In this cool math activity for kids, they are asked to add 2 in any number that appears in the question. For example, 7 + 2 = 9, or 3 + 2 =5. In both options we added 2 to the other number. It is simple to play and provides the basic concepts of skip counting to create counting fluency and preparations for multiplication and division.

It helps students to see patterns in numbers as well as lays a great foundation for number sense and learning multiplication facts. After your child has practiced enough on the skip counting game, browse the next game for skip counting by 3 for grade 1.   Kindly Check out other math resources Here

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