Math-Powered Imaginative Play

February 19, 2009

by Amy Rees

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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