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Sharing fun math experiences with teachers and families.

EDC’s Young Mathematicians program is designed to foster young children’s early engagement with mathematics by supporting math learning across home and school environments. In close collaboration with educators and families, we have created over 55 freely available mathematics games for young children to play at home, at school, or during family play and learn events.

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Games to try first

Feel For Shapes
Feel For Shapes
Line 'Em Up
Line ‘Em Up
Roll One
Roll One
Dance Patterns
Dance Patterns
Hungry Numbers
Hungry Numbers
Numbers, Numbers, 1,2,3
Numbers, Numbers, 1, 2, 3
Copy My Pattern
Copy My Pattern
I found with a lot of these games that I could expand on them, so they were getting a lot of math throughout the whole day; I can incorporate them in to circle time. They all sit in a circle and roll the dice and jump so many times, or whatever they need to do. It’s a good transition to go wash their hands or whatever they need to do.
As a parent, you do [math] examples with the kids but you don't have a structure for… learning, like you have this program. They are learning. It's structured, it's like you have a curriculum. It's different when you have [this program] at home.
I think that you should always give all children the opportunity to benefit [from math games], because their brains at this age [are] ready to learn everything…
I really think that a parent group should have [this program], and have the teachers and parents talk about it growth mindset and give them the extra encouragement, or remember when you count you would go slow.. knowing that they are going to make mistakes and that its normal, that would be nice.
You know what is interesting?  Realizing that, actually, math is with us all of the time.  We are surrounded by math.  Two shoes, one shirt, one pair of pants.  You cook one cup of rice, half a spoonful of this or that.  I mean, math is all around us. So, it’s good to teach children that -- not to have the same fears that I had as a child.  As a child, I learned to be afraid of math.
ParentLawrence, MA
If math had been taught this way when I was a kid, I don’t think I would have the math anxiety that I have now. This way it makes sense! . . . And it was a very natural way to introduce math into the classroom. It wasn’t MATH! Because we would use it at free play, at circle time, in small groups.
LucianaEducator
When Sabas first started he would keep saying, “I can’t do it,” but with positive reinforcement he kept at it. Watching Sabas improve over the weeks was so inspiring. He asks to do the puzzles almost daily and is excited to show how he can assemble them and how he knows the shape names and colors!
Maureen (educator)Springfield, MA
Before playing these games, I had no idea what subitizing was. Now I see it everywhere! I always used the same configurations. Now I know how important it is to mix it up and show quantities differently!
AbbyEducator
Alexi would sit, each morning, and complete every puzzle. She was able to sort by shape, size, color and how many sides. One day I didn’t put any cards out and … she created her own pictures using pattern blocks without any outline.
Christine (educator)Worcester, MA

This work is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation Grants 2015-023, 2016-13, 2019-1396, 2021-2871, 2022-3381, 2023-4803, 2024-5011 and Overdeck Family Foundation Grant 2019-1396; and by the National Science Foundation Grants DUE1348564, DRL 1907904. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.