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My recently turned 6dd, Kindergartener, is perplexing me. She is having a great deal of difficulty in recognizing her numbers. Simple numbers....like 1-20. We've not progressed past there. With my previous K students, I used RightStart math and neither had any difficulties. I strayed from RightStart this time, because it is so time consuming and parent intensive...and I'm welllllll BUSY. Everything in the Level A RightStart book is repeated in Level B which I intended to take up next year. So, this year we have been using a combination of MCP K and Math Gnomes and Numbers from Serendipity. I've also added in a bunch of living math books, counting games, bean bag tosses with counting, Montessori number activities...and still, this child can't recognize an 8 or count to 20. I'm looking for any suggestions for gentle ways to help with proficiency here, because she is beginning to be frustrated with herself, despite my trying to remain neutral and not make a big deal out her forgetting not just from day to day, but from moment to moment.
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My dd was exactly the same way (She turned 6 last august). I tried everything I could think of with her and nothing stuck. I was pulling my hair out! How could a very bright girl like her not know what a seven is??? Especially when I just told her two minutes ago??? Baffling!!!
I eventually just accepted that she was, for some reason, just not "there" yet and I relaxed a bit, and just kept on offering. And then suddenly she was ready, it clicked with her, she knows her numbers, and all of my struggles seem rather silly now.
The same thing is happening with her with reading.
I am finding out that this is the type of child that just WILL NOT learn until she is ready, no matter what. And once she is ready, then she learns. It is a very new experience for me!
This may be the case with your dd. Perhaps it is not a matter of how, but when?
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Thanks for the kick in the pants Theresa. This is new territory for me as well. She's my oldest Kindergartener as well and it just never dawned on me that she wasn't ready.  She does the same thing with reading. She looks at "the" and can't remember what it is when she read it 5 times in the paragraph she is reading, the same day 
I'll just lighten up a bit...my mantra with everyone else these days seems to be "not a biggie....", guess I need to listen to my own advice.
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Kathleen, I can also sympathize, I love Theresa's example and advice and your own for that matter. She'll surprise you when you least expect it 
We've had LOTS of fun with number boxes with little objects inside for my guy to count. I know AndreaG has had lots of success with her littlies with these.
Have fun with her, no pressure, it'll happen.
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I'm glad this topic came up- it makes me feel better about my 6-year-old kindergartener who has not taken off with reading yet.
He is good with numbers though.
With my daughter who is almost four, I am using the number boxes Meredith mentioned. I have the felt number on the lid, and I used the colored counter bears inside. I followed the RightStart math approach and made groups of five one color. So the eight box would have 5 red bears and 3 blue. My daughter really enjoys them, she has learned numbers up to six.
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What if you just played lots of games for a while? Cut back on the the math activities that aren't working, and just plan a time every couple of days to play? Then she might not feel any pressure to *learn* her numbers, but learn them she very well may. Some ideas: Crazy Eights, War, Yahtzee, Chutes & Ladders, Go Fish (with # cards), Memory (# cards), Dominos. My 6yo likes to play "dice". Seriously. All we do is each roll a dice and see who has the highest number. She loves it. When she got it down with one dice each, we changed it to two dice each. Now she has to add up the 2 dice she rolls and see if its higher than my 2 dice.
Hope that helps.
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Several of my kids learned their numbers playing card games, as Sarah said.... War, Fish.
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Hi,
I had the same problem with my son Joshua. Joshua has a medical history from before birth and was given zero chance of being developmentally normal....but shockingly he is except for the math thing. He is going to be 7 and the reading is fine for him but the numbers six, seven, eight and nine were such a killer. I did sandpaper, we drew our numbers in the mud, glitter and glue, counted, flashcards, Handwriting without Tears, we named the numbers, sang about the nubmers....then I gave up till I found this nifty litter counting tower by-Voila toys....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GLJVZ8?ie=UTF8&tag=wwws avvysourc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&crea
unfortunately, they don't sell it here anymore but they do in England
http://2to5.com/search.asp?offset=12&search=voila
This was so wonderful because it was big enough that they could learn to match the number visually to the concrete amount. And it as a bonus the base sits up, so that when you do a subtraction problem like 6-6=0...the zero space is obvious. My other 2 school age kids got really stuck with the Cuisenaire rods on 6-6=0, etc. because they could not see the zero. My son used this little toy for a few weeks and then walla-he new his numbers 1 through 10. He insisted on using it to do addition and subtraction, and cried last week when I told him we were moving on to 11-20 so therefore the tower would no longer work.
Although it would be hard to buy, maybe it you look at it on the links, you could make something that will help your daughter learn it on her own.
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