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My DD is 3 1/2. She's been attending a Montessori school for about 2 years (about 9 months in the primary room). She's never spent much time in the math section of the room which according to her teacher is normal for a 3 year old but she does work with the brown stairs and pink tower. She can count to 20 and can recognize numbers 1 through 5.
I'll be homeschooling her beginning this fall and am at a loss about what to do about math. I see on the MA pre-school curriculum about doing a small amount of math but I'm confused about what she should be doing. Do I need a formal math program? That seems a bit much for a 3 1/2 year old. Or can we just do counting, measuring, etc. in normal day to day life?
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oh yes just do counting and measuring and stuff in regular life.. My oldest could double and triple recipes before she had a clue what multiplication was 
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I recently purchased both The Early Years: A Charlotte Mason Preschool Handbook and Mathematics: An Instrument for Living Teaching from Simply Charlotte Mason. I found them both to be very helpful when deciding what type of math to do with my littles (3 and 5).
Yes, you can just do counting and things. No, you don't need a formal curriculum for anything at age 3. The Preschool Handbook is really good, though.
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Cooking together is great -- so is shopping and handling money ("You have this much money; let's see what you can buy that costs less than what you have . . . "). Counting everything, talking about what happens if one of the two birds on the fence flies away or another one comes along. Noticing patterns.
Math picture books are a lot of fun, too -- there's a huge reading list at the Living Math website. We especially liked a book called One Odd Day, about -- you guessed it -- odd numbers, when my children were young.
Even now, when my youngest children are 9 and almost-11, I find myself having "math conversations" all the time -- pointing out real-life incidences of concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and so on (now that they have actually dealt with those concepts). I'm not a mathy person at all; I still remember sitting in my first-grade classroom, looking at the page in my math workbook, and thinking, "I'm just not going to do this," which was pretty much my MO for the next 11 years. But I've really, really enjoyed math with my kids, especially my two youngest who have been home from the beginning, and for whom math has been allowed to be a matter for play and conversation (though it's also work now!).
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My ds really liked Mep reception at that age. We just snuggled up and talked about the pics. if you have a tablet, this is super easy.
He is past the stage now, but for my next kiddo, I'm planning to use Csmp K after mep reception. It's very interactive and game based with very short lessons, lots of rhymes, and cute pic books. The child doesn't have to do any writing except optional connect the dot type activities.
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We played games: Chutes and Ladders (for counting), dominoes (more counting, also matching, and we used the blanks as zero rather than wild), war (greater/less) (remove the face cards, since they don't have numbers on them).
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