Ages: 6-7+

Preparation:
Clear floor area large enough for 12 students to hold hands while stretched out in large circle.

Method:
12 students take hands facing in and stretch out to form circle. Drop hands.

Teacher assigns each student a number beginning with the hour 1. Each student repeats his number as the teacher walks around the inside of the circle in a clockwise direction, just as the hands of a clock move.



From this practice students also learn what clockwise direction means.

Have students practice saying their number in order, 1-12, student by student.

Another practice in this formation is for a 13th student to stand in the very center of the circle and point to a specific hour that the teacher calls out.

Students can scramble and change positions so they are a different number, and each student can take turns as the 13th student pointing out the time the teacher calls out.

Lessons
Math while Moving - Homepage
1. Math while Moving - Counting
2. Math while Moving - Addition and Subtraction
3. Math while Moving - More Addition
4. Math while Moving - Clapping Patterns and Sets
5. Math while Moving - ABA Sequencing
6. Math while Moving - Geometric Shapes
7. Math while Moving - Learning to Tell Time

Related links
What Is Your Child's Learning Style - Auditory, Visual or Kinesthetic?
Kinesthetic Language Learning - Introduction
Dyscalculia - also Known as Dyscalcula or Acalculia

Recommended
Kinesthetic Math and Language Lessons -
You´ll find 33 beginning and advanced kinesthetic math and language lessons in 78 pages for kids of all abilities in grades K-6, including teaching all ages the one-hand alphabet with large photos of the letter shapes.


And, for ages 2 to 5, more than 10 kinesthetic learning lessons, plus rhythms, dances and exercises in this workbook Rhythms and Dances for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Article and photo credit Susan Kramer; sundial in courtyard of Enkhuizen Museum, The Netherlands