Math Right From the Start: What Parents Can Do in the First Five Years

by Jan Greenberg

Math skills are as crucial as literacy skills for your child's success in school. How children learn about math is as important as what children learn. You can explore math with your child in many ways right from the start. Using daily routines of shopping, cooking, reading, and talking about what you are doing, you can build math skills. Count everything! Talk about the different sizes of this one's big, that's bigger. Sing songs with numbers. Play with empty pots of different sizes. Sort clothes. This easy-to-read booklet shows you lots of fun ways to make math a part of every day with your child. 56 pages.

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jan Greenberg is an award-winning author celebrated for her books about art and artists. Her collaborations with Sandra Jordan include Action Jackson and Christo and Jean-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond, both honored for excellence in nonfiction. Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of an Artist earned a Sibert Honor and became a Common Core text exemplar. She later co-authored Ballet for Martha and The Mad Potter, each receiving starred reviews and Sibert Honors. In 2013, she and Jordan received the Children’s Book Guild Award. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.