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[quote=Anonymous]I've got a kid who loves math and chooses to supplement at home. We have some math workbooks that are available just the same as coloring books and other activity options. We play a lot of math games at the dinner table (talking about numbers, asking each other math questions, asking questions about how you would solve a number related problem, estimation problems, etc), there are plenty of board games that involve math (some expressly educational and some implicitly so), there are also many math related books (math career biographies, math content books, fun math related books). 
I would add that understanding the why and how to think through the right approach is really important. And as the math becomes more automatic can be harder to remember. So I would make sure that the number sense related pieces are brought up regularly.  As teachers generally want to be able to "see the work" at this age because its so important.
There also great books about math pedagogy (both geared toward teachers, but also some great ones written for a broader audience - I'll have to go back and look at some of the recent ones I've read). 
It's also worth noting that we are generally a math and number loving household, so its a very natural extension to be talking math and numbers.
Oh one last thing, when we talk math and numbers, one of my favorite follow ups is "how else could you figure that out" (for example if you're talking about how many squares on a chess board - could identify all of the ways you could find out: count them, count the ranks and the files and multiply, notice they have the same number of dark and light and count just the darks and double, guess, etc. And then you can also talk about whether each method would always work or cases where they wouldn't )[/quote]

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