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Math is Everywhere
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See more Topics Discover fun new ways to explore numbers, counting, patterns, shapes, and much more with kids. Whether you are working in a classroom or family child-care setting, with one age group or several, you will find tips and activities to make math fun while building children's math skills.
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Download NowFun and Easy Math Moments Everyday
Get into math mode by watching the video. Not only will you get a taste of math the "Sesame" way, but you'll find yourself looking all around for new chances to discover math with children. Below you'll find tips to make sure math is everywhere.
Make math a part of your daily routines
Fun math moments can be connected to any group activity – just look around! Get your groups moving with these math ideas.
Math in Learning and Play Areas
Whether you are in a classroom or family child-care setting, you can support children's learning by providing manipulative tools such as different-shaped objects, crayons, and measuring cups in your learning and play areas.
Math Talk
If you incorporate math vocabulary into your day, you'll be amazed by how much math is all around! Consider these ways to inspire children to hear math anywhere and everywhere.
Home-School Connection
Empower parents and let them know that by exploring math, their child can become a problem solver, thinker, and innovator. When meeting with parents, suggest some of these ideas and activities.
- #1 Math in Your Routines How Many Steps? (Skill: Estimation)
Ask children to estimate how many steps they think it will take to go from the table to the cubby or from the door to the shelf. Count how many steps it actually takes. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #2 Math in Your Routines Hokey-Pokey (Skill: Spatial Orientation)
In, out, up, down, all around—the familiar verses in this song put math words into action to help children learn about spatial relations Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #3 Math in Your Routines Snacks and Meal Times (Skill: Measurement)
Cooking is great hands-on fun. Use rich math phrases such as: let's count, let's estimate, more than, less than, half, full, empty, large, small. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #4 Math in Your Routines Divide and Serve (Skill: Take Apart/Partitioning; Materials: Apples)
Count how many apples there are for a snack. Count the number of children at the table. If there are 6 apples and 12 children, what can you do? Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #5 Math in Learning and Play Areas Art Area (Skills: Counting, Spatial Relations, Patterns)
As children express themselves through art, they can write numbers, explore shapes and patterns, or count the number of objects they draw. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #6 Math in Learning and Play Areas Reading Area (Skill: Counting)
In Elmo's Math Adventure, read the game instructions on pages 6–7 aloud to children and then play! Emphasize "counting on." For example, if you are on space 2 and draw a 3, count out loud as you move the Sesame Street friend, "3, 4, 5." Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #7 Math in Learning and Play Areas Playground/Outdoor Area (Skill: Spatial Relations)
Outdoor play can encourage children to explore math concepts in active ways. Play games such as Red Light, Green Light; "Grover Says"; and London Bridge. Talk about the ways children move—over, under, around, forward, backward, above. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #8 Math in Learning and Play Areas Dramatic Play Area (Skill: Patterns; Materials: Radio, MP3 player, or CDs and CD player)
Any dance enthusiasts involved in dramatic play can make up their own pattern of steps. Stomp, stomp, clap, stomp, stomp, clap.... Ask children to extend the pattern by asking, "What comes next?" Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook - #9 Math Talk Start to explore numbers and operations by saying: How many? How much? What is the total? Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #10 Math Talk Get children thinking about shapes and spatial sense by using words like these: circles, round, sides, angles, up, down, in, out, right, and left. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #11 Math Talk Help children size things up by using words about measurement: same, different, big, biggest, heavy, lighter. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #12 Math Talk Critical thinking and communication are encouraged when you say: How much do you have? How did you figure that out? Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #13 Home-School Connection On your way to school or home, compare the buildings that you pass. Which building is the tallest? Which is the shortest? Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #14 Home-School Connection Notice number sequences in the addresses you pass. Ask your child to predict which number will come next. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #15 Home-School Connection Count down to bedtime. Practice counting backward, from 10 to 0 as you tuck your child into bed. Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
- #16 Home-School Connection Discover numbers. Use your fingers to find out different ways to make eight. Start with five plus three fingers. What else works? Share Share via email Share via Twitter Share via Facebook
About This Project
Sesame Street Math Is Everywhere aims to help parents, caregivers, and educators help young children explore and understand math in the everyday world. By focusing on the broad thinking and reasoning skills required to master mathematics, Math Is Everywhere hopes to use math as an early starting point for empowering children's learning across the curriculum for years to come.
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