Savvy Parenting : Math-Powered Imaginative Play The Savvy Source for Parents

There's a reason that math isn't taught as a separate subject until, well, long after preschool ends. Math waits patiently in its prescribed time period only for middle-schoolers. Preschoolers happily integrate math into reading corner, snack time, garden play, everything.

Dress-up and dramatic play, then, are not just the province of storytelling and social skill work. Pre-math skills abound there too. Looking for ideas?

Open a cafe. We've seen many a preschool playdate turn into a full-scale pretend diner, with menus proferred on an easel, orders taken and cooked, and happy customers served. We've never seen dishes done, though....

Turn your kitchen into the grocery check-out. Let your little one loose in the pantry, gathering up dry goods for stocking his pretend market. Mama gets to run a house charge account, right?

Start a bagel shop. Or something else that sells thing by the dozen. Doughnuts, if you must.

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