Shapes in Mathematics

A few nights ago, we were having dinner and my daughter said, “You know what’s weird? We learn about shapes in JK/SK [Junior and Senior Kindergarten], and then we learn about them again in grade one, and now I’m still learning about them in grade two!” …

Math Talk for Infants

I often encounter well-intentioned parents who want to expose their children to math, but they just don’t know how. I think this is because we think of math as the computations or algebra we learn in later years in school when, really, mathematical concepts begin much earlier. …