A Way of Describing the World
MATH
Birth to 6 Years
MATH
Did you know your baby is actually learning emergent math skills?
- While crawling/jumping/hoping skipping
- Or making their way under the chair you are sitting on?
- Stacking your books to build a tower
- Making patterns out of the pasta s/he just spilled.
Babies are born hard-wired to understand quantity and magnitude as well as spatial relationships, regularity, and sequence. However, these innate capacities, develop into specifically mathematical understandings and skills such as number recognition or pattern creating, only if nurtured by parents during the early years of 0-5.
Intentional, informal activities give your child a head start when s/he begins math in formal school.
By having fun together during every-day, ordinary, but loving and mindful interactions, you are building on your child’s natural curiosity to learn early math skills.
Infants
Toddlers
Preschoolers
Kindergartner
Birth – 1 Yr.
Infants
Concepts
Chapter 4.14
Math for Infants
From the moment they are born, babies begin to form ideas about math through every day experiences. Mindful parental interaction helps the baby to develop math concepts & skills early on in life. But why Promote Mathematical Experiences in Infants?
The Play Way
Chapter 4.15
Math Talk Ideas with Infants!
Bringing more math into the home doesn’t have to take up any extra time: Parents can talk about math with their new-borns while reading books, having meals, playing with toys, and even just going about their regular routines. Where to begin?
1 – 3 Yrs.
Toddlers
Concepts
Chapter 5.12
Math for Toddlers
Early math doesn’t mean taking out the calculator during playtime. Even before they start school, most children develop an understanding of math skills through informal daily routines you share with your child.
The Play Way
Chapter 5.13
Talking Math with your Toddler
A toddler’s environment significantly contributes to inciting numerical thinking as well as building strong spatial skills! Young children pick up early math skills by building on their natural curiosity in everyday playful activities. Some ideas to playfully introduce early math skills to toddlers…
3 – 5 Yrs.
Preschoolers
Concepts
Chapter 6.13
Math for Preschooler
Preschoolers love to ask questions and play games that involve the many aspects of math. Dynamic engagements, hands-on games and projects, is their route to informal mathematical learnings and applications, However, early math is not about how to count, recognize the numbers and add or subtract them!
The Play Way
Chapter 6.14
Talking Math with your Preschooler
We can make the math that occurs in daily life visible to children through math talk. Each day offers us countless opportunities to help children deepen their understanding of math concepts. How can parents support this?
5 – 6 Yrs.
Kindergartner
Integration
Chapter 7.12
Math for Kindergarten
If introduced in the right way, early math can rewire your child’s brain for growth mindset, better problem solving and build positive attitude towards the most feared subject. Worry not! You do not need to be a rocket scientist, just a little change in the outlook and mindset would do the trick!