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Become a family of mathematicians! It’s easy to do math at home with your preschooler. Look for simple objects to count, measure and organize. There are numbers and shapes to see, sizes of things to compare, and problems to solve. You can even find math in your child’s favorite books. Have fun with the tips and activites below and not only will your child be practicing numbers, but also also perfecting everyday chores.
Cooking with Math
Ready, Set, Math
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Boxes, Tubes, and Cartons!
Save small boxes, paper towel tubes, lids and cartons for your child. He can create a city, a train, a house — whatever he can imagine. As he builds new structures, he’s solving problems. How will he make a shoebox into a skyscraper? How will he connect a box and a tube? He’ll also be exploring math by counting and sorting sizes and shapes and comparing objects by lining them up from biggest to smallest.
Laundry Time
Get help with the laundry while teaching your child to explore math concepts. It’s a win-win situation! Start by having her sort the laundry by color. Are there more darks than lights? What about the in-between colors? How many pairs of socks are there before you start? Are they all there when you finish? Your child can also help sort the clean laundry by size and family member. That makes math — and doing the laundry — fun!
See It, Count It, Weigh It
A trip to the grocery store is a great time to explore math with your child. He can compare sizes and colors of fruit or help weigh the produce. He can count out similar items from the shopping cart. Figuring out how objects relate to one another is another kind of mathematical problem solving — at home, ask your child to help you sort the food and find space to put things away on the shelves.