Math

Measure the House

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Happy Friday! I know many of your kids enjoyed the Counting the House printable activity I posted a while back. So, I have another fun around-the-house math activity for you – let’s do some measuring! The printable is two pages – the first page includes items that can be measured with a ruler, and the [...]

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Let’s Sort!

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{Originally posted May 2008} I don’t know about your kids, but mine love to sort! They are both naturally driven toward making groupings of similar objects, lining them up or making little piles.  Sorting is not only fun, it’s also building those important early mathematical and scientific reasoning skills. Here are some of the easy [...]

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Learning Coin Values with Money Bingo

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Delaney told me she keeps getting “all the coin money mixed up.”  It probably doesn’t help that her sister can count her piles of coins without any help. So, we’ve been playing a very simple money bingo game to work on those pesky coin values.  Delaney loves bingo, so I can pretty much give her [...]

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Summer Fun Bag #1: Tangrams

The thing I love most about summer is that my kids get to have those long unstructured blocks of playtime that they need and crave. However, I know I will hear, “There’s nothing to do…” more than once! In the interest of being proactive, I’m putting together some Summer Fun Bags – ziploc bags filled [...]

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7 Fun Ways to Explore Shapes

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1. Draw shapes outside with sidewalk chalk. Give your child shape challenges, like “march around the square,” “jump in and out of the circle,” or “count the sides on the triangle.” 2. Go on a shape hunt. Give your child a clipboard and paper with two or more shapes to find. Hunt inside, outside, or [...]

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