Here is a great resource for helping children learn to skip count.
According to the author, "Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication?"
The resources include activities, games, songs, and even books that help children learn skip counting.
What activities have been successful with your children as they learn this important math skill?
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You makes an excellent point. Skip counting is a great way to start familiarizing a child with multiplication. There a lots of ways to do it, but using normal playing cards has advantages that no other way has. Here's a link to a free video you can view to learn a good way to teach skip count by two and three with playing cards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHSfXMYWPK4.
Brian (a.k.a. Professor Homunculus at MathMojo.com )
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