Activity Ideas:
Bathtub Math
Mathematical concepts can be learned using a variety of inexpensive materials. Assorted containers,
measuring cups, squirt bottles and funnels can help children develop concepts such as empty/full,
before/after, shallow/deep, and heavy/light. Add these materials to your child's bath tonight.

Measuring Fun
Add assorted dried beans with measuring cups, bowls, and/or spoons to the sensory table.

Weather Charting
Materials: notebook, pencil, crayons.
Directions: In a notebook help your child to keep a visual or graphic record of the weather. Perhaps after
breakfast each day you could draw what the weather looks like outside. Write in the date and whereabouts.

Sorting Buttons
Put buttons in water and have the children sort them by color, size, or whatever. They can use tweezers to
pick them up with.

Shell Fun
Have on hand a wide variety of shells. Let the children sort the shells into group by kind, size, texture, etc.
Have them count the number of shells in each group. Continue by asking the children to find the smallest
and largest shell. Then have take turns balancing the shells in each hand to see which is heaviest and
which is lightest.

Money Game
Place 3-5 coins in your hand. Let your child see them. Close your hand and have your child guess how
many of each type of coins were in your hand

Measurement
Use tape measure and measure the height of the children. Use tape to
mark heights on the wall.

Trace around child's foot on a piece of paper. Children can use their footprints to measure the length of a
table, the doorway; and other classroom items.



EZ Ways to add Math Skills to a Child's Day:

1.  Play a Memory game or a favourite card game like "Go Fish".
2.  Sort the laundry together
3.  Sort toys from smallest to biggest
4.  Add rulers, unit blocks, a calculator and/or clock to a child's play space
5.  Bead a necklace and pattern the colours
6.  Chart your family's (or class) favourite colours
Math DAZE
c. Marcia Arpin
www.alltheDAZE.com
established July, 1,
2002
Words of Wisdom

""The mind can make substance, and
people planets of its own with beings
brighter than have been, and give
a breath to forms which can outlive all
flesh."

-Lord Byron
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