TEACHER TRAININGThe Patterns of Rhythm, Movement, and Skip Counting (K – 2)

Join this arts integration STEM workshop to learn teaching strategies that move children past rote memorization into a deep understanding of number patterns. Skip counting is all about how equal groups are added on, one at a time, to build a growing pattern. But do students really understand this mathematical pattern? Can students feel these same patterns in movement? Or hear these patterns as rhythms? Moving in equal groups strengthens children’s understanding of equal groups.

In this workshop, explore arts-integrated teaching strategies that help students skip count with ease and flexibility. Students should be able to skip count by 2’s starting on both even and odd numbers. Students should master all skip counting patterns starting at any number! When students have a strong conceptual understanding of skip counting, they can quickly apply their math skills to telling time, combining coin value, and multiplication.