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[quote=Anonymous]So the best thing you can do for preschoolers is show them math concepts in everyday life. My kids learned fractions by baking. 2 1/4 cups is the same amount as a 1/2. We do a lot of counting so they can easily count to 100. Then we do skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s. We do this when we are impatiently waiting at a red light "hey larlo, can you count to 100 by 10s to see if you can make it before gis light turns green?". We then do addition and subtraction -- "if I have 20 raisins and you have 7, how many do we have? Let's count them". We sort M&M's by colors and make patterns and sets. And we count everything-- stairs, trees, birds, toys.

I refuse to do a formal curriculum because I want them to understand math organically. they'll get the curriculum in school, but I want my kindergartener to be able to think through problems like "if I have 21 kids in my class and valentines come in packs of 8, how many packs so I need?" Or "if I have 1 hour for screen time and Ninja Turtles are 14 minutes long, how many episodes can I watch"?[/quote]

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