When our children go to school, they will encounter real-world problems (aka word problems) on an almost daily basis. Starting as young as kindergarten, our children will be asked to apply what they know about math to real-world settings.
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We all want to raise kind children who know how to share with others. But did you know that teaching your child how to share also teaches them basic division?
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If one is the loneliest number, what does that make zero? In early childhood math, the answer is usually—forgotten. Zero is frequently overlooked in early math activities, but children as young as one are beginning to understand the concept of zero.
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Your child is learning to count increasingly larger groups of objects. Now, you can move their thinking further by incorporating some very simple real-world problem solving. The simplest two to start with are joining and separating. I like to start with these two because the action words are very concrete to young children.
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Did you know that learning the calendar is an early math skill? Before your child can learn to tell time on a clock, they need understand the units of time on a calendar.
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Let’s start at the very beginning: COUNTING! You know that we should teach our children how to count. But there is much more to counting than merely reciting the names of numbers.
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