Many Ways To Use Hundreds Chart

By Manjit Singh Atwal
Grade one students need to be very good in counting from one to one hundred. To teach kids count to one hundred, teachers and parents can use a hundred chart.

But teacher and parents should not stop only at teaching from one to hundred using a hundred chart, but this chart can be used to explore many other basic math skills. Hundred chart can be used to teach even and odd numbers, skip counting by 5's and 10's and later in grade two or three, this chart can be used to introduce kids with prime and composite numbers.

Once kids are very familiar with counting from one to twenty, they should be introduced with hundred chart. In this chart, first thing to do is ask kids to say all the numbers from one to hundred. Once kids can say all the numbers from one to one hundred by looking at the chart, then parents or teachers should ask the kids to say all the numbers from their memory without using the chart.

When students have memorized the numbers from one to one hundred, then they should use a blank hundred chart to write numbers from 1 to 100. Once a student can fill whole chart using right numbers, then teacher or parents can use this chart, filled by student with numbers from 1 to 100, to introduce this student with even and odd numbers. Ask the student to color all the even numbers in red and color all odd numbers in blue. While coloring these numbers even and odd numbers will get fed into the little one's memory.

Next, ask the students to look at the column with 5 at one's place, and ask them to color these boxes with yellow color. As all these numbers are odd numbers and already been colored in blue, when students use yellow color on blue these boxes turns into green and create interest in kids to color them all. Now all the green boxes in the chart are counting by fives, which is a very strong basic skill to learn five times table and other times tables.

Once kids got familiar with skip counting by fives, the next step is to ask them to color the boxes with zero at one's place in yellow. As these boxes with even numbers, already colored in red, the new color becomes orange when kids color yellow on red. Now all the orange boxes contain all the numbers need to learn counting by tens.

Hence, hundred chart can be used many ways to teach kids numbers from 1 to 100, even and odd numbers and skip counting skills.blogspot.com,blogspot,blogger