MATH
Did you know your baby is actually learning emergent math skills?
- While crawling/jumping/hoping skipping
- Or making their way under the chair you are sitting on?
- Stacking your books to build a tower
- Making patterns out of the pasta s/he just spilled.
Babies are born hard-wired to understand quantity and magnitude as well as spatial relationships, regularity, and sequence. However, these innate capacities, develop into specifically mathematical understandings and skills such as number recognition or pattern creating, only if nurtured by parents during the early years of 0-5.
Intentional, informal activities give your child a head start when s/he begins math in formal school.
By having fun together during every-day, ordinary, but loving and mindful interactions, you are building on your child’s natural curiosity to learn early math skills.
