early math

Press Here

Have you read this book? Maybe “read” is not exactly the word here. Have you played this book yet? If not, go ahead and give it a try. The idea is simple – each page of the book tells you what to do, but doesn’t tell you why you are doing it or what to […]

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No Manipulatives Days

These have been our math manipulatives for the last couple of weeks. Here they are lined up from largest to smallest. We usually use a lot of manipulatives with my son. But not this week. It was interesting to see how a 5-year old deals with something very abstract, such as numbers. Last week, while […]

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Greedy Triangle Math

We’ve had such a great time with Marilyn Burns’s The Greedy Triangle book that I want to share it here on the blog. If you haven’t read this story, it is about a triangle that one day got tired of doing the same old things. It thought that if he only had one more side […]

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Teach Your Child to Count

Does this look like a lot of spacecrafts to you? This is just a small part of my son’s collection. Sure does come in handy when it’s time to learn counting.  I am an anxious mom. There, I’ve said it! I fret a whole lot about my child, including whether he is learning everything he […]

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