Category: Math and Reasoning

• Practice Math at Home!

  

  Math is all around us from the day we are born. “When was he born?” “How much did she weigh?” “How long was she?” Encourage children to see the math all around them and in their everyday lives by having fun with it at home. Here are some ways to practice math at home. READ…

• Prepare for Kindergarten with More Math & Literacy

  

  Help your 4- to 6-year-olds build advanced skills coordinated with each month’s theme! Help your preschoolers prepare for kindergarten with More Math & Literacy workbooks. More Math & More Literacy books feature the same thematic studies explored in our Experience Preschool Curriculum each month. More Math & More Literacy resources are the perfect way to extend lessons and offer more advanced activities…

• The Development of Pattern Skills

  

  What Are Patterns? Patterns are things that repeat in a logical way. Patterns can be found everywhere in children’s daily lives. They can be a sequence of shapes or letters such as AB, ABC, AABB, a routine physical action such as brushing their teeth every night before bed or an environmental normality like the sun’s pattern…

• Play the Spots in the Grass Small Group Math Game

  

  The Spots in the Grass Small Group Math Game from the Going on Safari study focuses on Number Sense and Attention & Persistence skills. See our current study schedule here. Many African animals are herbivores and eat grass. Grass can easily be found in places in Africa and also in your own backyard. Print and…

• Attention & Persistence Building Math Games for the Win

  

  Math games not only develop problem-solving, critical thinking, and logic and reasoning skills but build attention and persistence skills. Children with the ability to pay attention and persist with a task are more likely to have future academic success. Attention & Persistence Attention and persistence skills allow us to focus our minds on the internal…

• Learn Shapes with Songs

  

  Geometry has never been so much fun! Connect with children and teach them about shapes through song. Young children learn quickly with rhymes and songs. These Silly Shape Friend Songs are perfect for circle time or small group time. An understanding of shapes is a child’s knowledge of form, dimension, and composition of objects. It…

• 3 New Ways to Use Puzzles in Preschool

  

  Looking for 3 New Ways to Use Puzzles with Preschoolers? There is so much more to puzzles than pieces! We love these three preschool-friendly ways to teach math, language, and even fine motor skills with puzzles. Each of these hands-on activities works perfectly with the cardboard puzzles that you receive every month in your preschool…

• Preschool Skills Buried in Sand  – 5 New Sand Play Ideas

  

  Sand is simple (and yes, messy!) but it actually has a BIG impact when it comes to preschool learning. Here are 5 new Sand Activity Ideas to develop social, physical, language and cognitive skills: Explore & Play These ideas and 120 more come from the Desert Discovery thematic study by Experience Preschool. Teaching children about…

• 5 More Ways to Make the Most of Counting Books

  

  Learning to Count In one of my preschool classes last year, a young girl ran up to me with eyes wide open and announced excitedly that she could count to 11! “What an accomplishment!” I said, then invited her to show me her skill. She stood up even taller and beamed, “1-2-3-6-7-8-11.” Some would say her counting didn’t…

• No More Math Anxiety

  

  How you teach math today has a big impact on how children approach solving math problems in the future.  These techniques show some new ways to build confidence when approaching math with your preschoolers: Watch it: What did you think? Leave a comment or ask a question at the bottom of this page! Transform teaching math…