 You can help a child improve their math skills with an activity called I add you add To do this We just need some small objects that you can easily move around and count For example, I have some glass beads here You could just as easily do this with some rocks or beans or any small objects you have around So first we're going to move them into two groups One group will be for you and then the other group will be for the child And you can start and you can say okay I'm going to move a few of mine out into the middle here and then let's count how many there are and The child can count them one two three and you can say very good there are three Now you can invite the child to add a few more so the child might say okay I'm going to take these two and put them out there and you can say okay Let's count them again and the child can count one two three Four five and you can say yes very good. There were three and you added two more and now there are five Then you can add a couple more. Let's see you might say I'm going to add two more here And let's count them again Then the child can count one two three four five six seven Then you can continue taking turns adding a few more and counting how many there are each time Doing this activity will help to introduce the idea of addition