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10 Experiences to Promote Early Math Development

1. Expand upon children’s’ natural curiosity by

inviting them to figure out solutions to

everyday situations. For example, ask

children to help you put the laundry away.

They will practice sorting—the washcloths

and the bath towels—and experiment with

relative size and shape, as they see how the

big towels take up more room than the

smaller ones.

2. Read children's books that rhyme, repeat,

or have numbers in them. Sing nursery

rhymes and songs that involve number

concepts, e.g., "One, two buckle my

shoe..." or "Old McDonald." Books, nursery

rhymes, and songs are great ways to

communicate using mathematics!

3. Count everything in a child's world! Count real objects to help children use their own experience with objects to

better understand numbers.

4. To help children learn to count accurately, point to objects as you say each number. Help them learn to count

their fingers, putting up one finger at a time as you count it. (Fingers are tools you always have with you!)

5. Play sorting games with children using everyday objects. Sort for similarities and differences and talk about this

with the children. For example, find all the white socks, then look for long socks and short socks. When they are ready, you can help them make simple patterns, e.g., one white sock followed by one colored sock, or one long sock followed by one short sock.

6. Let children climb in and out of boxes, on or around furniture, going under, over, around, through, into, on top

of, and out of different things to experience themselves in space. This is a fun way for them to develop geometry and spatial sense!

7. Give children things they can touch and manipulate like blocks, boxes or containers, shape sorters, and puzzles.

Even cutting the sandwiches they eat into different shapes and letting them fit them together or rearrange them helps them learn. Children learn geometry best through hands-on experiences!

8. Help children learn the names of different shapes. Traffic signs are a good place to start. Yield signs are triangles,

highway signs are rectangles, and stop signs are octagons. Ask children about the signs they see. Talk about how many sides it has, or how many corners it has. Older children may talk a lot about what they saw. "That sign is a rectangle. It has 4 sides and 4 corners." For younger children, you may be doing most of the talking, "That sign is yellow. It is shaped like a triangle." They may enjoy drawing the signs/shapes, as well.

9. Let children play with pouring water into different sized cups and thinking about which cup will hold more. This

is a simple activity that actually involves estimation, measurement, and spatial sense.

10. Encourage children to explore measurement concepts by letting them pick their own units for measurement,

e.g., "Look! My shoe is two pencils long!"