Young children are natural mathematicians!
Looking for ways to build math skills with your young child?
Explore the following resources for ideas and check back for more!
Two Strategies to Help Your Child Learn to Love Math
This quick video from the Institute of Education Science provides some key facts and two easy strategies for helping your young child build math skills as part of your daily routine.
Stanford University - DREME Early Math
Stanford University's early math resources for families, available in both English and Spanish
These one-page overviews talk about early math skills and how you can help your child build them at home.
Zero to Three: Help Your Child Develop Early Math Skills
Zero to Three supports the well-being and development of babies and toddlers; this article shares suggestions for helping build math skills with informal activities at home.
Zero to Three: Math Language and Young Children
Another great resource from Zero to Three that suggests ways to introduce math language so these words are familiar when children hear them in school.
NAEYC Resources for Families
The National Association for the Education of Young Children provides suggestions for math at home; you can explore a wide range of topics, and we have listed a few of our favorites here. Just like reading with your young children, early math experiences are important!
Preschoolers are Natural Mathematicians
Helping Your Child See and Show Mathematical Ideas
Math and Literacy - The Perfect Pair (for more book ideas, also check out Family Math Learning Resources
Young Mathematicians is a program of the EDC (Education Development Center) that works to provide math resources for children ages 3-6 that families can do at home. You can check out their games here in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
You can find more resources on our Family Math Learning Resources page