Skip Counting by Fours with the Singing Horse

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This energetic educational music video features an animated horse character teaching students how to skip count by fours. Through a catchy, rhythmic song, the video guides viewers through three distinct levels of difficulty: first counting up to 20, then extending the pattern to 40, and finally completing an "expert" run all the way to 100. The video integrates physical movement instructions, encouraging students to engage their bodies while memorizing the numerical sequence. The content focuses on the mathematical concept of skip counting, which is a foundational skill for understanding multiplication and number patterns. By breaking the counting sequence into manageable chunks and repeating them with a strong beat, the video helps students internalize the multiples of four. The visual component reinforces the audio by displaying large, clear numerals on the screen corresponding to the lyrics, aiding visual learners in connecting the spoken number with its written form. Teachers can use this video as a lively warm-up activity, a brain break, or a core instructional tool for introducing multiplication tables. The kinesthetic elements—instructing students to touch the ground and stand up—make it particularly effective for active classrooms where movement is used to anchor memory. It serves as an excellent resource for transitioning students from simple addition to multiplicative thinking by demonstrating the predictability and rhythm of number patterns.