any good ideas how to teach a kid to count by 5's?

Question

Child can count by 1/s, 2/s,10/s, but 5/s seem hard for him. Any suggestions. Trying to teach him to tell time you have to know how to count by 5's, also counting money. HELP!!!

Answer 1

buy the school house rock video or dvd, it has a cool song my two year old niece sings- 5,10,15,20......it's multiplication rock,

also ,you might want to try finding a teacher supply store in your area and looking at the items used to help kids conceptualize quantities, and buy an abacus.

Answer 2

In the Montessori method we use something we call the long chains and the short chains, they are for squaring, cubing, skip counting, etc.

This type of material would be wonderful for your student, you could make a chain of five using pipe cleaners and beads.

Visit one of the following websites for an image of the short chains I'm talking about. http://www.montessorioutlet.com/product_images/M-028.9hr.jpg

With the chain you start counting beads in the first group (1,2,3,4,5). Then move to the next group and see how many beads are in it (1,2,3,4,5!). Now see how many are there if you count all the beads in the two groups (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!), keep repeating the process until you are done.

Then take it a step further and label the last bead in each group (5,10,15,20,25,etc) and have the child take a look. Then, have the child just count by reading the labels. Then, count without the labels but count by fives.

You can also, once he understands skip counting by 5, start doing multiplication (5 taken 2 times is 10, and show the two groups of 5 add up to 10).

You can take the short chain (which has 25 beads) and bend them into a zigzag pattern to create a square. 5 squared is 25!

Answer 3

OK well I know Im just kid but i always have wanted to give advise to people that need help with kids ok if i was a child that coulden't count by 5's i would give them 5 canys and then say ok whats next and then add 5 diffrent candys and ask how many are there and then go up to like 100 and when you get to 100 if he hase no difficultys counting up to that then tell him to try again then gived him 5 candys it really works i tried it with the childern i baby sitt I hope you tri it it really dose work and if that dosen't work trie somthing diffrent please just don't resort to the either ends in a 5 or a 0 IT NEVER WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope this helps <3 xoxox

Answer 4

Put the problems in together in a song.
My old English teacher taught us our prepositions to the tune of "Jingle Bells". I still remember it almost fifteen years later.
Just take a familiar song, like the alphabet song or something they've always heard and may know. Then stick with the format.
The child will not think you're a dork, and they'll appreciate being so far ahead in school.

Answer 5

Ask if he has ever played the game Hide -n-Go Seek, if so then explain to him that he was counting by fives. If he has not played the game before find someone that has and demonstrate it for him. It's counting by fives and playing all in the same time.

Answer 6

Have him bouce a ball (like dribbling a basketball) and everytime he bounces it, he says a number. First bounce - 5; second bounce - 10; and so on.

Also, like others were saying Schoolhouse Rock. I still use the "Three is a Magic Number" song when counting by 3's.

Answer 7

You could get one of his favorite things, like candy, and then put them in groups of five. then tell him to count how many are in each group. after that, you could tell him to count how many groups there are. so now he knows that there are 5 in each group and lets say 5 groups. now tell him to count like this, ok 5 twix bars, 5 twizzlers, 5 tootsie rolls, 5 snickers, 5 skittles. now tell him to add 5 to each one. so its 5 10 15 20 25! good luck


i dont know if i worded that out correctly. sorry if u dont understand but try to use some of his favorite thngs to count! ♥

Answer 8

Use a 100 chart--give your child bingo markers and show them that every number counting by fives either ends in a zero or a five. Have them mark them with a bingo marker and then have them touch them and count them out loud. For every time they count them out loud correctly give your child a play dollar. When they have ten dollars, give them a treat!

Answer 9

This seems too obvious to be helpful but, just in case, how about fingers, i.e five on each hand? Opening and closing a hand each time counts as five.

Answer 10

Tell him that the number will either end in 5 or 0.