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Preparing a tasty meal, shopping for new shoes, knitting a scarf — these all may seem like unrelated activities, but they have one thing in common: Numeracy. Cooking requires measuring ingredients, shopping means counting money, and knitting requires estimating how much yarn you’ll need to finish a project. 

Numeracy involves recognizing and understanding and the wide range of situations in which we use and interpret mathematical information in our daily lives. We use numeracy to resolve problems, think critically, make logical decisions, and try to make sense of the things around us. 

It’s common knowledge that children are most open to learning when they’re young. Their curiosity for the world around them and innate capacity for asking questions sparks their learning journey as they begin seeking answers and experiencing new things. That’s why numeracy is something we and use throughout our lives.

include verbal counting, spatial sense, comparing and ordering, identifying patterns, estimating, recognizing and manipulating quantities, and measurement. Research shows that core educational skills, such as math and numeracy, are essential to a child’s academically and in life. 

Tips on how to :

• - There are so many opportunities for you to help build your child’s numeracy skills. Take advantage of these math moments! Have your child count the amount of items in the grocery cart, ask word problems that pertain to what you’re doing (ex: 7 people are coming over for dinner and we have 3 chairs at the table. How many more chairs do we need to get?), have them help you measure out ingredients when you’re cooking, etc.
• Focus on problem solving - Rather than just trying to get the right answer, have your child focus on solving the problem and coming up with multiple solutions, and make them share their thinking along the way. Promote a growth mindset by using mistakes to help guide your child’s learning. 
• Learn through play - Games are a great way for parents to get involved in their child’s learning. Use games and activities to help your child notice shapes, numbers, patterns, size, and more. Try ‘I spy’, board games with dice, card games, , sorting and matching games, building blocks, and singing songs with counting sequences and rhymes.

How the 91���� app can help kids develop numeracy:

The 91���� app features many storyworlds that are great for building children's numeracy. Check out the , , and storyworlds for interactive videos and games to help develop and grow your child’s early math skills.