Teaching Children about Classification

Classification is one of the important skills in Early Mathematics. Classification means to sort or group the objects by some common characteristics. For example:

• to classify the animals in groups (number of legs, giving birth/ laying eggs, etc.).
• to classify the fruits according to colours.
• to classify the clothes according to sizes (big, medium, small).

This is one of teaching materials made by my students as an assignment. From the teaching material, students will learn to recognize colours and shapes as well as to classify the objects accordingly.

                                                     Classification according to shapes.

Classification according to colours.

In the early age, children learn about classification to differentiate between big numbers and small numbers. At their level, they need to recognize about big and small numbers for doing subtraction process. They only can subtract a small number from a big number as young children still do not learn about negative number. 

It is crucial for children to learn about classification as they need it while learning mathematical concepts in schools. For example, they will learn about positive and negative numbers, natural numbers, rational numbers and so on while doing mathematical operations.