Academic skills: Learning and Understanding Math
5 Ways to Build Math into Your Child's Day
Baking Math for Families and Young Children
Helping Your Child See and Show Mathematical Ideas
Math Talk with Infants and Toddlers
Math and Literacy—The Perfect Pair
Preschoolers Are Natural Mathematicians
Support Math Readiness Through Math Talk
Support Math with Materials in Your Home
PBS Parents: Baby and Toddler Math Activities
PBS Parents: Matching Games for Babies and Toddlers
PBS Parents: Bath Games for Babies and Toddlers
PBS Parents: Movement Games for Babies and Toddlers
PBS Parents: Counting Games for Babies and Toddlers
PRESCHOOLERS
PBS Parents: Preschool and Kindergarten Math Activities
The California Mathematics Council maintains a FOR FAMILIES section on its website with articles about math education, hands-on math activities to try at home and information about hosting a family math event at your preschool or education center.
Math Activities for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
Cookie Sheet Math: Print and Make on Your Own
PBS Parents: Pattern Matcher: Making Patterns
Johnny the Guinea Pig Teaches Geometry: Sliding, Turning and Flipping
Icy Slides Flips and Turns: An interactive media game that helps children practice slides, flips and turns (requires adult prompts)
Many activities involving symmetry
An online reading of Loren Leedy’s book, Seeing Symmetry
Children help Purpy (a purple circle) find his favorite shapes.
Shapes Preschool Activities and Crafts (circle craft ideas, printable coloring pages, flash cards and worksheets)
Templates to make paper clocks and felt board clocks
Play Gingerbread Men and match the numbers on the gingerbread men to the objects on the gingerbread men.
Play Ladybird Counting and practice counting and ordering numbers up to five with ladybirds, snails and leaves.
Probability Game for Kids (children will need adult help with this game, as there is a lot of reading)
Games to practice and reinforce fraction skills
PBS Kids: Puppy Clifford’s Measuring Up Game
PBS Kids: Dinosaur Train (children measure animals of different sizes to see how much room they will need on the dinosaur train)
Fun games that help children master addition facts 1-12
Fun games that help children master subtraction facts 1-12.
Funbrain Monster Math Adventure
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (an excellent resource for finding and using virtual math manipulatives for children Pre-K through 2)
Virtual Balance Scale (children can click on items and place them on a virtual balance scale)
Crickweb Early Years Learning Activities for Infant, Preschool, Kindergarten
PBS Parents: Building Sandcastles
