Learn Math with Lego Blocks
I wanted to do some fun hands on math
with my three year old daughter, and I haven't yet taken the
opportunity to invest in any fancy math manipulatives. Looking
around the room at all of the toys, I decided that legos would make
the perfect tool to practice number recognition, counting, patterns,
and even addition!
All you will need to do this activity
with your preschooler is:
- a few (we used 20 Duplo variety) Lego blocks
- index cards or cardstock cut into rectangles
- a marker
On each card I wrote a number 0-10. I
also traced a block on each card. Then I shuffled the cards and set
them aside in a pile. We pulled the cards one at a time, and talked
about the number written on the card. Then we counted out (sometimes
she counted by herself, other times she wanted to take turns with me)
the number of blocks that corresponded with the number printed on the
card. She decided that each tower we built was a skyscraper. Zero
was a fun number to count out! When I asked her to count out zero
blocks we both burst out into laughter.
When we had counted out blocks for each
card, we moved on to comparison of numbers because we were still
really having fun. We drew two cards from the pile and counted out
the correct number of blocks for each card. We talked about which
“skyscraper” was taller or shorter or had more or fewer blocks.
To extent this further, you could draw three cards and talk about
more, most, less, and least.
The final activity we did with the
blocks was to make various patterns with them. I had selected three
colors: red, yellow, and green for this activity. Having a greater
number of two or three colors will work better than having fewer
numbers of more colors, because it will be very frustrating for your
child to keep running out of a color. We made AB, ABC, and AABB
patterns. I invited her to both complete patterns that I started and
make up her own patterns.
Right before we cleaned up the blocks,
we did one conceptual addition exercise. We sorted the blocks into
towers by color, counting as we went. After we had counted all three
colors, we lined them together and counted the total. As you talk
about addition with your child, you may wish to introduce the
language of addition such as, “four red blocks and five yellow
blocks makes 11 blocks altogether” (after you have already
demonstrated the solution with counting, of course).
We had so much fun during this
exercise! After my daughter's interest in the math lesson waned, we
enjoyed simply building more little “skyscrapers.”
This is such a great idea.
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