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Try teaching them to count with dice. Roll the dice, choose/count N objects, and try to have them do the same.

• icantdrive55 10y ago
  My dad tried to teach me to count using dimes. I had some kind of learning dissabliity. I just couldn't remember how many dimes he would throw on the table, once he would take them away. He started to get bored with my lack of progress. He then decided to play Magician. He would take a dime and, (Palm it--without me seeing), act like he's putting a dime into his mouth, and then pull it out his navel. I was floored. He did it about ten times. My dad was truly amazing. "Dad--can I try it." I can still picture the look of fear/doom on my dad's face when the dime didn't come out my belly button. I just asked him, "Where's the dime?" I couldn't go to the bathroom without my parents for the next two days. They finally found the coin. (I'm not passing this along as any warnings. I think parents are a bit too overprotective today. If I had a child I would defiantly use dice to teach counting. It's just a funny story I just recalled.)