Gina Rae Mitchell

100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths by Emma Smith | Review 

A book blog tour from Rachel’s Random Resources.

Thank you to the author, publisher, & Rachel for providing me the information for this tour.

 

Book Details

100 ways in 100 days to teach your baby maths by Emma Smith
Published by Matador on 08/19/2021
Genres: Educational, Non-fiction, Parenting
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 240

Maths ability on entry to school is the strongest predictor of later academic achievement, double that of literacy skills, and simply saying more number words to babies increases their maths ability.

What else have scientists, psychologists and professors learned about maths for babies?
Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, calculating probability at six months old, and doing addition and subtraction at nine months old.

The best time to introduce maths is infancy. By the time children enter school, there is already a significant gap in maths skills, this gap increases over time. A parent’s attitude shapes a child’s attitude. Parents have the power to teach their babies that learning maths can be either something to feel anxious about or something to enjoy.

Babies can learn maths while boosting all other areas of development. For example, movement is boosted while teaching geometry positional language, literacy is boosted while reading a “number” book, and bonding is boosted by giving a baby undivided attention while teaching maths to him or her.

Maths is important. Babies will use maths every day for the rest of their lives. What about the impact of gender, culture, videos, sleep, diet—even the type of pushchair you buy?

100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths holds the answers.

Source: Rachel's Random Resources, Received from the author or publisher for review.

 

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My thoughts on 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths

This is a well-researched and easy-to-read look at the simple ways you can introduce your baby to the concepts of math.

I bet you already do many of these. Who hasn’t sung The Itsy Bitsy Spider or This Little Piggie to a little one? You didn’t know that was teaching math concepts, did you? I know I didn’t.

Each chapter is presented as a day and a new tool given to help you and your baby grow and learn together.

I tend to think of math as numbers and equations, yet simple words like up, down, over, behind, and above relate to math. When you look at it that way, even people who swear they are not good at math are able to help teach a new generation.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful for a child to enter school with the basics of math already in place? We need to look at the positive and teach children that math is fun…not scary.

 

I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.

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