Such a task in a modern elementary school is already given to first-graders. Which is not surprising, on the one hand, because right now they are getting acquainted with figures and numbers. In addition, children need to understand where math knowledge is used in life.
But, on the other hand, "Numbers in riddles, proverbs, sayings" is a rather difficult topic for a first grader.
Here are a few tips to help you do well in this challenge.
What is the difference between a digit and a number?
This question could be the start of a project. Answering it, the student will get acquainted with new information. He learns that riddles with number 1 are different from riddles with one, for example.
Turns out numbers are just math letters. With their help, specific values \u200b\u200bof numbers are written, just as words are formed with the help of letters in Russian.
Times have changed and are changing. It is known that inIn the cultures of various peoples, there were counting systems that consisted of a different number of digits than we are used to. For example:
- two;
- five;
- seven;
- eight;
- twelve;
- sixteen;
- twenty.
And in languages such as Hebrew, Church Slavonic, Ancient Greek, numbers were denoted by letters.
Mathematics is all around us. Numbers in riddles
Beginning to study mathematics, children first of all get acquainted with numbers. Riddles about numbers will help you learn all of them, from zero to nine.
These rhymes, where new meanings for children are compared with known objects, will help turn on the imagination of little guessers. A positive result can be considered such a situation when the children themselves begin to offer their associations:
1. I look like a bagel.
"Nothing" I mean.
You'll get me too
Not answering the question!
(answer: number 0)
2. They stuck twig after twig into the ground, So that the new flower bed is not trampled.
What number (and it's not difficult)
Does every stick in the fence look alike?
(answer: number 1)
3. Float on the lake expanse
White swan and black swan.
Smoothly arched necks.
Can we compare them with what number?
(answer: number 2)
4. I look like a Z, Wriggle forever too.
The number is a small snake
Guess, buddy, hurry up.
(answer: number 3)
5. If the chair is turned over
And take a closer look, He will become a number immediately.
Which one? I ask you!
(answer: number 4)
6. Now, friends, let's see the reflection, Not interrupting the swans gliding.
And what looked like a deuce to everyone, It will become a new number of some kind.
(answer: number 5)
7. I'm a castle, but they didn't close me, The bow was not attached.
And it looks similar
A number by name …
(answer: number 6)
8. What is the mower in the meadow
Mows the grass, just old?
Tool it, maybe
Will you help guess the number?
(answer: number 7)
9. Guess all of you
A snowman without a head.
Strength for the third guys
Not enough. Two stand
Snow globes
One on top of the other.
Guess first!
Finish later!
(answer: number 8)
10. This figure is closest to ten.
The tadpole curved its tail, He looked into our notebooks to visit.
And everything is in order in our notebooks!
(answer: number 9)
In the classroom, riddles about numbers can be alternated with coloring books on this topic. If you play with children in this way for several days, then by the test tasks they will already remember all the numbers well.
Numbers in proverbs and sayings
Riddles are good for learning numbers. But one should not forget about such a richness of the native language as short edifying sayings.
Proverbs and sayings often contain different numbers. There are children's poems that can be discussed both while studying mathematics and in Russian language lessons. Highlighting the main idea in them, explaining it and seeing which number plays the main role here is an interesting activity:
I broke through to the gate, I tried to beat everyone more accurately.
I didn't train in vain -
I play the best!
I fought the enemy like a lion.
But my coach was smiling
Somehow not good at all.
And guys I heard laughter.
And in the end it turned out
What the team … lost.
And, of course, got it
Most of all I'm nuts.
I didn't feel like a partner, I didn't give the ball away soon.
And in the junior tournament
We are the lowest in the table.
I deserve censure, There is no warrior in the field!
Change I'm set.
That's when success awaits us!
Riddles, proverbs and sayings contain a variety of numbers. You can find a lot of them in books and on the Internet. And similar methodological material is constantly updated:
Good birthday present
Book, toy and treat.
But there is no limit to my happiness, I didn't get cake or candy.
Mom came to congratulate and in her arms
Kept a curly-haired puppy!
We are trembling with impatience.
Hurrah! Let's run for a walk!
He slaps right through the puddle, And of course Ifollowing the puppy.
The kid sees a hole in the fence: "Woof!"
We climb together. I tore my sleeve.
Chased after the lame cat
And sprawled right on the road!
Forgotten cat, we began to fight.
Wool flies in tufts, clothes wrinkle.
Tired we returned home.
“Two boots you are a pair. My God!”
Looking at us, mommy told us.
I took them both to the bath wearily.
But I and the puppy did not understand, After all, we walked without boots!
Fairy tales and pictures
Numbers are found in various works of art. Kids are familiar and close to folklore. They all love fairy tales. And there, as in riddles, proverbs, sayings, numbers are found at every step:
Now let's remember fairy tales, Tell me, how many pigs were there?
How many bears were in the house?
Bogatyrs, what are they riding in the picture?
Take a close look at the pictures.
The appropriate number would be …!
(answer: number three)
Now tell me how many gnomes
Did you live in a house with Snow White?
(Answer: seven)
Answers in nursery rhymes
In games and jokes familiar to first graders, numbers are also often used. You can recall the well-known “boom in the hole! They crushed forty flies!” and find many more similar verses:
How many funny geese
Keep grandmothers in the villages?
The children's song has a clue.
You find the answer, don't be lazy!
(answer: two)
Creativity Trigger
When receiving an assignment from the teacher to prepare a math project “Numbers in riddles, proverbs…”, primary school students naturally turn to their parents for help. Moms and dads, as well as older sisters and brothers, study volumes of libraries and Internet sites in search of the necessary information.
Contained in this material.
We should not just forget that the development of the child's imagination and the awakening of his own creative abilities is very important.
To complete the last task, the verses about numbers and numbers given here can become a "trigger". Of course, with the participation of adults.
