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Contents
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For the grown-ups
This book is full of hands-on activities that will tap straight into your child’s
natural mathematical curiosity. Each activity is designed to let your child play
and learn with all their senses. Together, you can grow their love of math,
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their creative problem-solving, and their understanding of the world.
Here are a few tips to help you along the way:
The light bulb speech bubbles at the start of the activities suggest a learning
objective for each game, but these should not limit your child’s play. Involve
your child in the preparation of each activity, let them follow the instructions,
but also let them try out their own ideas and explore in ways that they find
interesting. You never know what they might discover!
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Your child should be supervised when experimenting with these activities, but try
to give them time and space to lead the direction of play. The questions in this
book are suggestions. Let your child ask, and answer, their own questions.
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Adult Alert stars show where your child will need extra grown-up help.
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Protect the area where your child will be playing and encourage A L ERT!
them to wear old clothes. Be especially careful when using food
coloring, which can mark fabrics and temporarily stain skin.
Being prepared lets your child enjoy themselves to their fullest.
Making a mess is part of the fun and learning!
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Contents
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Little minds have big ideas!
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Your math senses
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Math treasure hunt
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Sorting sizes
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Clever counting
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Number bugs
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Hungry adding robot
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Carnival cans
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Magic pattern wands
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Shapes
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Make shape aliens
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Measure me
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Rainbow bottles
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Gravity scale
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Wacky watches
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Pizza party
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Look, you’re a mathematician!
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Index
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L i t t l inds a e Yo
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You don’t need a fancy calculator or a whiteboard
full of big numbers to be a mathematician. You already have
everything you need: your brain and your amazing senses!
Curious questions
Math is full of puzzles to solve, things
to figure out, and brain teasers. Here are
some questions to ask yourself as you play.
• How can math ideas be useful
in the real world?
• Where can I spot math being
used around me?
• How can I learn even more about
these math ideas and topics?
Let’s see what
we can do!
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Y
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u
Brain
g
b i ide s! math Your brain is not one of
a your senses, but it gathers
information from them all and
s
ns tries to understand it.
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e s
You don’t need a fancy calculator or a whiteboard
full of big numbers to be a mathematician. You already have
everything you need: your brain and your amazing senses!
Hearing
Sight
Your ears can listen
to noisy patterns.
Mathematicians
Sounds can also be
look at things
measured with math.
carefully to see
how they work.
Smell
Taste
Use your nose
Your tongue is
to find smelly
great at tasting.
math clues!
You need math
to cook and follow
yummy recipes.
Touch
Let’s see what
Your skin tells you how things
we can do! feel. Use your hands to compare
sizes, textures, and shapes.
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Math
treasure hunt
Math is all around you! Ask an adult to take
you on a nature walk to gather math treasures.
Learn to find math
Can yo
in your everyday life u
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with this activity. u
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Wash your treasures
(and your hands!)
thoroughly. Things
you pick up may
be a little dirty.
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What’s math?
h a p e s can
s y
Math is all about
t o
treasure hunt numbers, shapes, a u
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s
measurements, and W
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patterns. These things e
help us understand ?
our world. You can
use math as a tool
to solve problems Pebbles
and create solutions. P i n e c o n e Which of your
Can yo treasures feels
u
c
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u
math tr nt and which is
ea y Feel and count
s o the heaviest?
u
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? your leaf.
Feather
Which treasures
do you have most
of ? The fewest?
L e a f
Shells
What colors can
you spot on your
nature walk?
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Sor ting sizes
From the tiniest pebble you picked up to the heaviest rock
and the longest feather, sort your nature
treasures from the smallest to the biggest.
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Play this sorting game
to learn about size. Use words Start with two
such as big, small, bigger, smaller, pebbles. Compare
biggest, and smallest. them to see which
is bigger and which
is smaller.
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Small Big stones
stones on on this side.
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haven’t been
on a treasure
hunt yet.
Biggest
Smallest
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How else can
you sort your
nature objects?
Magic
math
What other words can
you think of to describe
the size of things?
Can you sort the stones
in size order with your
eyes closed?
Can you think of the
difference between tall
things and long things?
Sort your flowers
from the shortest
to the tallest.
Sort your sticks from shortest to longest.
Biggest
There are lots
of ways to sort
your treasures.
None of them
is wrong if they
follow a pattern.
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Clever counting
Numbers are super useful to know. Learn your numbers
to 10 and beyond with these awesome mini games.
You’ll soon be counting everything around you!
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These games teach oi
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you how to count objects
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0
one by one and the order
of numbers from 1 to 10.
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Frog hopscotch
7 Cut big leaf shapes out of green
cardboard and number them.
Stick them to the floor with
4 adhesive tack to make sure you
5 don’t slip around. Hop from pad
to pad like a little frog, counting
as you go.
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Adult
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A LERT!
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You can add
Start bubble wrap to
here the pads to make
them squishy.
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