Red Frog Lesson

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: “Counting, trading and or swapping red frogs and green frogs” children engaging in incidental learning can be a fun, creative and an enjoyable way to enhance their mathematical and numeracy thinking skills. Children learning to negotiate will enhance conversational skills using the proper language to meet a positive outcome, for example; ‘I will swap you one green frog for a red frog’!. Social skills will also enhance the learning as this allows children to collaborate in a manner that is positive. In this game, creativity will also enhance their learning, at times children can get creative by coming up with ideas that can help solve a conflict. An example of a limitation; the child might want to swap two red frogs for one red frog, this

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