I certainly would like to equip my toddler with more maths (and preferably computer science) skills than we see in schools. I was planning to remedy this by taking more time on teaching her the content myself (assuming she’s willing!) I appreciate this won’t work for everyone—it’s time-consuming and not every parent has great maths.
I’m hoping that I will be able to get into a routine of regular maths fun with Daddy. At first this will be the basics (my daughter can’t talk yet, so she still has a lot to learn!), and then over time moving on to more advanced things. At the moment she loves it and eagerly asks for maths, so I’m hoping that will last.
We play maths games on the computer. She’s enthusiastic about them, but I’m far from confident that it’s improving her numerical capabilities. Some evidence in favour of it is that she can now say the number “two”—this doesn’t impressive, but she has very few words at the moment. At least it’s more likely to help than harm (I suspect) and at worst it’s daddy-daughter bonding time.
Similarly dice seem to be entertaining for her, so I got hold of educational ten-sided dice, and I’m still experimenting how best to use them.
I have ideas for fun things to do together when she’s older, which I’m currently keeping track of in this document.
I certainly would like to equip my toddler with more maths (and preferably computer science) skills than we see in schools. I was planning to remedy this by taking more time on teaching her the content myself (assuming she’s willing!) I appreciate this won’t work for everyone—it’s time-consuming and not every parent has great maths.
I’m hoping that I will be able to get into a routine of regular maths fun with Daddy. At first this will be the basics (my daughter can’t talk yet, so she still has a lot to learn!), and then over time moving on to more advanced things. At the moment she loves it and eagerly asks for maths, so I’m hoping that will last.
We play maths games on the computer. She’s enthusiastic about them, but I’m far from confident that it’s improving her numerical capabilities. Some evidence in favour of it is that she can now say the number “two”—this doesn’t impressive, but she has very few words at the moment. At least it’s more likely to help than harm (I suspect) and at worst it’s daddy-daughter bonding time.
Similarly dice seem to be entertaining for her, so I got hold of educational ten-sided dice, and I’m still experimenting how best to use them.
I have ideas for fun things to do together when she’s older, which I’m currently keeping track of in this document.