If you always thought that mathematics only revolved around numbers, well, think again.
There are a myriad concepts that make up maths that can help to prepare your toddler for school-related mathematics. They are fairly basic once you know them. Pre-arithmetic readiness includes memory and sequencing abilities, the ability to understand shape, form and volume. It requires the child’s understanding of size, position, length and quantity.
STAGES OF LEARNING
Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori found that learning about numbers requires three stages:
1 THE ABILITY TO SORT OBJECTS INTO SETS
Before your child can identify, for example, three cars as being part of the same set, he needs to
