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	" 'Ideas To Help Children Learn Math During Everyday Home Routines' [in] A Family Note on Finding the Math"
	Daily activities such as getting dressed, helping to set the table, picking up toys, and eating a meal provide opportunities for families to teach children various math concepts. Teaching teams including parents may learn how these daily activities enhance children’s mathematic skills. These every day routines can help children count, use one-to-one correspondence, repeat patterns, solve problems, compare sizes, recognize positions of objects, and understand quantities. To read PDF files, get here. The following is an excerpt from A Family Note on Finding the Math Here are some ideas to help children learn math during everyday home routines.   Getting dressed   "How many buttons do you have on your shirt? Let’s count them as I button you up." Number—counting "Here’s a sock for this foot. That’s one foot. Here’s a sock for the other foot. That’s two feet!" Number—counting, using one-to-one correspondence "Look, the stripes on your socks make a pattern — blue, white, green, blue, white, green!" Repeating patterns "Do you want to wear your short pants or your long pants?" Measurement—comparing sizes     Setting the table   "Will you help me? Each person gets one fork, one spoon, and one napkin." Number—using one-to-one correspondence Point out the repeating pattern in the way your family sets the table. For example, "The fork goes on this side, then the plate, and then the spoon. We do it the same way every time!" Repeating patterns "How many spoons do we need? Let's count." Number—counting, solving problems "Give the big cup to daddy. I would like to have a little cup." Measurement—comparing sizes     Eating a meal   "Your sandwich looks like a square. If I cut it this way (corner to corner), what shapes will it make?" Geometry—recognizing shapes "How many pieces of cheese do you want?" "Do you want one or two?" "Let's count how many raisins you have." Number—counting "You have more pieces of apple than I do." Number—comparing number of objects     Picking up toys   "Let’s put your cars on the shelf and the balls in the box." Spatial Sense—recognizing positions of objects "Can you put your three trucks here?" "There should be six dinosaurs. Will you count them and make sure they are all there?" Number—counting "You can put away the square pieces. Your brother will put away the round ones." Geometry—recognizing shapes " 'Ideas To Help Children Learn Math During Everyday Home Routines' [in] A Family Note on Finding the Math." National Head Start Family Literacy Center, Sonoma State University. 2004. English.