Family Math

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Math is All Around Us: Simple, Everyday Games to Practice Creating Sets and Sorting with Kids

Here are three simple ways to tap into your child’s curiosity, turn daily tasks into playful games and begin to show your child that math is everywhere and it helps us in so many ways throughout the day!

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How Two Brazilian American Kids Are Inspiring Little Ones to Love Math and Reading

More than just engaging children in everyday math, the book “Lia & Luís: Who Has More?” shows young people of color, or who grew up in a multilingual homes, characters who are like them.

A water bottle with sparkly blue water stands alongside colorful plastic blocks in two towers and two post-its labeled "stands" and "falls."

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: un divertido experimento de lanzar botellas

Esta actividad matemática de lanzar botellas introduce el análisis de datos de una manera fácil y divertida para los estudiantes pequeñitos.

Family Math Activity: Fun Bottle Flipping Experiment

This bottle flipping math activity introduces data analysis in a fun and easy way for young learners.

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3 Easy Activities to Help Kids Feel the Love for Math on Valentine's Day

This Valentine’s Day, foster heart-centered connections as you partake in these hands-on activities that increase mathematics development — and a little bit of literacy, too!

A colorful donkey piñata’s length is measured in clips and M&M’s.

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: midan con clips y M&M’s

Utilicen herramientas de medición no estándar para medir objetos domésticos.

A small child sorts stars at a day care that took part in a pilot hybrid program from PBS SoCal focused on early science and math.

How Home Day Care Providers Are Coping During the Pandemic

Having to make cute handmade masks for children is just one of the many ways home child care providers have been forced to pivot.

Family Math Activity: Measuring with Paper Clips and M&M’s

Use non standard measuring tools to measure household objects.

Tres pedazos de papel con limpiapipas pequeños organizados en patrones de limpiapipas rectos y ondulados. La tercera hoja tiene pequeñas formas de cubo y esfera organizados en patrones.

Actividad familiar de matemáticas: jueguen con patrones

En esta actividad práctica, los niños pequeños practicarán el reconocer, copiar y ampliar patrones con elementos simples que ya tienen en casa.

Three pieces of paper with small pipe cleaners arranged in patterns of wiggly and straight pipe cleaners. The third sheet has small cube and sphere shapes arranged in patterns.

Family Math Activity: Play with Patterns

In this hands-on activity, young children will practice recognizing, copying and extending patterns with simple items you have around the house.

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The Countdown’s On: 4 Ways to Use Playful Math on New Year’s Eve

As we count backward, observe clocks and reference calendars during the year-end, we can help our little ones practice counting, sequencing and tallying skills.

A small child wearing a red Santa hat holds a paper snowflake in front of the face like a mask.

5 Winter Activities to Warm up Kids' Math Skills

Incorporating math into fun activities is like sneaking vegetables into their pizza sauce. It’s healthy and they don’t even notice! Here are some simple ideas to start the winter season right while building math skills.

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