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I guess at that age (preschool, first grade), math doesn't have to be math to be math. It can be jumping up and down and counting as article says. I can be counting stairs going up and down, building a tower out of sliced cucumbers during lunch. I feel an intuition about quantities and being familiar with numbers is a good foundation. At least that is what I am trying with my 3 year old.


I would second this. I just thought my 5 year old cousin grids and locations on a grid simply because I wanted him to play battleship.

Next up: difference in distance between one battleship to another; difference in distance across two axis; difference in x and y being called slope.

Then the possibilities are endless.


I learned grids and coordinates at school (UK) when I was 5.




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