Math Right From the Start: What Parents Can Do in the First Five Years

Math skills are as crucial as literacy skills for your child's success in school. How children learn about math is as important as what children learn. You can explore math with your child in many ways right from the start. Using daily routines of shopping, cooking, reading, and talking about what you are doing, you can build math skills. Count everything! Talk about the different sizes of objects: this one's big, that's bigger. Sing songs with numbers. Play with empty pots of different sizes. Sort clothes. This easy-to-read booklet shows you lots of fun ways to make math a part of every day with your child. 56 pages.