Skip Counting And Multiplication. This skill is sometimes viewed as an arbitrary math skill or something you recite on the playground. Teach your students to use skip counting as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.

Skip counting helps in fluency in calculations.
In skip counting we count by a number that is not one.
Skip counting is so much more. Skip counting also helps when learning to read a clock. All young children learn these number sequences but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication and division?