2 is very helpful in teaching kids the difference between odd and even numbers! This song from HeidiSongs’ Musical Math Vol. The Odds & Evens Song was a hit this year with #firstgrade & #secondgrade both!Ī video posted by Heidi Butkus on at 11:54am PDT
Not only that, but both my first and second graders LOVED this song last year! Our Musical Math Volume 2 DVD has a song on it called Odds and Evens that explains this exactly in the lyrics. In an odd number, one person is left without a buddy.
If you really have an odd number of children in the class, one of your students will not have a partner, leaving someone as the “odd man out.” Once I did this with my students, the children that were unclear on even and odd numbers suddenly understood the whole thing: in an even number, everyone gets a buddy. I think it is easiest for the kids to understand what an odd number is FIRST by lining them up by twos. Do some of your kids struggle to identify odd and even numbers? Oddly enough, this concept can be tricky for some children to master, even though it seems like it should be completely obvious! (Wink, wink!) Here are five easy ways to teach odd and even numbers!
