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Math by the Book
Reading counting books together helps your toddler enjoy and understand math.
Math Chefs
Have children measure and cut specified numbers of clay fruit pieces to make a clay fruit salad.
Math in the Bath
Once your baby can sit up, bathtime becomes a great time to play and learn.
Measure Up
Have children choose a number block card and then measure that many blocks with string so that they can make inclines just the size that they want them.
Measuring Plants
Have children continue to measure their plants. Provide various nonstandard measurement tools.
Measuring Tools
Introduce math tools to toddlers and let them explore measuring, pouring, filling, and emptying one material into another.
More . . . More . . . Too Many
Hand a baby more objects than she can hold to help a baby develop a strong sense of numbers. Play the game as you use lots of math vocabulary—here’s one toy, here’s one more, let’s count how many, and so on.
Music Makers
Hum, sing, whistle—what other ways can you make music? Try simple, homemade instruments, too!
Music Patterns
Play a musical pattern on toy instruments and have children say the pattern aloud with you as well as on their own.
Neighborhood Houses and Buildings
Take a walk with your child and talk about different shapes, textures, and materials you notice on the houses and buildings.
Number Houses
Have children build a series of houses, each higher than the next.
Nuts and Bolts Count
Have children unscrew the nuts from the bolts. Then sort and count the nuts and bolts.
One-on-One Reading: Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs
Read aloud Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs to individuals or small groups. Count the pigs on each page with children.
One-on-One Reading: Ten on the Sled #3
Read aloud to individuals or small groups. Talk about the main idea of the book. Ask children to point out things in the illustrations that are important in the story (characters, setting, etc.).
Packing for a Picnic
Planning a picnic together involves lots of early math concepts.
Parking Garage
Ask children to make a parking garage big enough to park some toy cars of various sizes.
Path Games, Board Games
Build a child’s strong sense of numbers and a foundation for math learning in later years by playing simple board games together.
Patterns
Introduce patterns by using colored cubes.
Plant Graph
Revisit children’s plant graphs and have them measure their plants again and record the measurements on the graph.
Plants are Different
Have each child draw a flower. Then have children measure the flowers and place them in order from shortest to tallest.