We recent received a question about a 4 year old. The mother asked if we had any tips on math activities for cognitive development of related skills.
Hannah, one of our tutors currently studying Early Childhood Education, had a few tips:
- Focus on things that are fun and of particular interest to the child.
- For example Baking!
- There are so many opportunities to discuss measurements, fractions and addition.
- And for a quick science add-on, why not discuss how baking soda and yeast produce a gas called carbon dioxide that makes the food rise in the oven.
- For example Baking!
- Find a clock the child can play with.
- Kids love to spin them and you can discuss the different hands, addition and subtraction.
- When you’re reading, take the opportunity to incorporate counting.
- Great things to count are spots on a page, stairs in a picture or kids in a picture.
Outside math activities for preschoolers
When spring shows up, make sure to enjoy fun activities wwhere kidds can incorporate math:
- Hopscotch
- Make a hopscotch pattern with chalk incorporating numbers
- Hop on whatever number is called out and written on the ground
- Equations in chalk
- Don’t hesitate to do addition or subtraction equations w/ chalk.
- Instead of number, try using things like stars: two stars plus three starts equals how many stars?
