Kindergarten is an important grade for children. It is often a child's first experience with any type of institutionalized education, and they begin to learn important life skills. It is the beginning of their education, and they are introduced to all sorts of subjects, like language, science and math. Kindergarten math centers are an excellent resource for teachers helping their students to
. learn basic math skills. Math centers come in all shapes and forms, but the basic concept behind a math center is that it allows the children to work together on math related activities. Children solve problems together, work on puzzles together, and complete a variety of other enjoyable and exciting activities. The math centers make sure that the children are completely engaged in the activity, making it much easier for the child to learn and retain that knowledge. There are any companies that sell pre-made math centers geared towards the kindergarten age group, but if budget is an issue, teachers can easily create their own math centers with some inexpensive supplies that are easy to obtain, a little bit of time and effort and some creativity. One idea for a kindergarten math center is a felt board. A large felt board is easy to purchase or make, and the teacher can easily cut numbers and shapes out of pieces of felt. The felt shapes and numbers stick to the felt board, and children learn number sequences, match objects, and complete a variety of other activities as instructed by the teacher. Another math center that a teacher may find appropriate involves foam french fries. The teacher purchase or creates french fry containers similar to those found at popular fast food restaurants, as well as french fries made out of foam. Children practice counting as they count out the number of french fries the teacher has told them, and put them into the french fry containers. http://www.littlegiraffes.com/mathcenters.html or http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1463.html
