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My two oldest will be starting Kindergarten this Fall. I am planning a very informal year, but I am interested in introducing some math concepts to them. I can find scope-and-sequence information online, but I'm looking for a good resource that I can pull out to play games with them a couple times a week or so. I also need something that doesn't require too much prep work because I really don't want to spend my time doing that sort of thing.
I have Family Math out from our library right now and like the look of it. But the K section of the book is a little light. Has anyone used Family Math for Young Children? What about Peggy Kaye's Games for Math? Other suggestions for your favorite math book for littles?
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These look interesting and along the lines of what I was looking for too. I am not sure I want to have a formal math program for my son because I don't want all the prep work either. I have looked at Shiller and I am looking into McRuffy K math.
So I will be listening in on any ideas that come through.
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Family Math for Young children is specifically for younger - pk-2nd grade. It has some great activities but there is some prep. I'm a math person, but for a non math person it has a lot of suggestions for question asking, perspectives about everyday math, and setting up games or even a family math club. but many activities do involve copying and pasting. we haven't used it that much this year as we ended up moving to MEP for first grade. And I didn't have it last year - but we'll probably use it for my daughter, turning 5 soon!
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I just love how Montessori presents the math facts -- they make so much sense. But looking at the assembly and materials making (and then storage and display) was so daunting!
RightStart was the second option. We just love it here. And for Kindergarten we did it very slowly...you could cover B over two years if you wished. There is very little prep time (I just look a few minutes before to see what materials for the lesson).
I know technically it's "formal" but it feels informal so I thought I'd recommend.
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I am using McRuffy for math. It is formal, but uses so many manipulatives that it doesn't feel formal. It feels more like a game. I am also using Miquon which definitely isn't formal. It is more concerned with teaching basic concepts in a fun way.
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It has been a long time since I looked at and used Family Math for Young Children, but I remember it being a great book.
At that age my kids loved:
Chutes and Ladders
Connect 4
Dino Math Tracks
Set (we played with half the deck)
Sum Swamp (a huge hit!)
We used a lot of picture books for math:
One Hundred Hungry Ants, A Remainder of One & others by Elinor J. Pinczes
Can You Count to a Googol, Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? & others by Robert E. Wells
Only One by Marc Harshman
How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort (too many to count! Not as math centered, but nice story.)
Grandfather Tang’s Story by Ann Tompert
A Cloak for the Dreamer by Aileen Friedman (Shapes. Extra teaching info in back.)
How Much is a Million? by David M Schwartz
If You Made a Million by David M Schwartz
On beyond a million: an amazing math journey by David M Schwartz
Sir Cumference books by Cindy Neuschwander
MathStart series
Books by: Marilyn Burns, Greg Tang
The Case of the Backyard Treasure by Joanne Rocklin (Hello Reader! Math series)
A Dollar for Penny by Dr. Julie Glass (Step into Reading + Math series)
A Dozen Dozens by Harriet Ziefert
The Bowwow Bake Sale by Judith Bauer Stamper (All Aboard Math Reader series)
How High Can a Dinosaur Count? And other Math Mysteries by Valorie Fisher
Planet Omicron (Math for Martians) by Julie Ferris (Kingfisher book)
Galaxy Getaway (Math for Martians) by Julie Ferris (Kingfisher book)
Right in Your Own Backyard – Nature Math (I Love Math series)
From Head to Toe - Body Math (I Love Math series)
The Mystery of the Sunken Treasure – Sea Math (I Love Math series)
One Nighttime Sea by Deborah Lee Rose (ocean counting book with Eric Carle style pics)
Shapes in Nature by Judy Feldman (wordless)
How many? How much? (Timothy Goes to School) by Rosemary Wells
Adding it up (Timothy Goes to School) by Rosemary Wells
Each Orange Had 8 Slices by Paul Giganti, Jr. (Counting/beginning addition)
The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams. Beginning counting, money – written in rhyme.
A Second is a Hiccup – A Child’s Book of Time by Hazel Hutchins (told in rhyme)
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Thank you for all the suggestions! I'm looking into everything mentioned here.
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movement also works good for my small children, tossing a ball back and forth with counting numbers up to 100, or jumping rope with counting or simple multiplication tables, or hopscotch, drawing number labyrinths with chalk in the driveway, etc....
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