Learners regardless of age don't learn merely by lecture or by watching. Instead, learners need to be engaged in a hands on fashion. That's just common sense. Young learners, to fully understand early math concepts will enjoy the hands on activities ad 'Math Cats' The activities found at Math Cats include: Village of Shapes, Number City, Polygon Empire, Toothpick Empire State Building, Tree of Hexagons and much, much more. Whether you're a homeschooler or a K-6 teacher, you will no doubt find helpful activities that provide hands on experience, motivate and teach some of the early math concepts.

If you're a math teacher or have responsibilities for teaching math this year, start collecting fun and unusual math problems now. Have a problem of the week or problem of the day ready and let the students work on it for bell work or when they've finished their work early. Engage your students by keeping them thinking and on their toes all year. Here are a few stumpers to get you started.

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Apparently our innate sense of numbers is logarithmic as opposed to linear according to Scientific American Mind. I always though that my own mind worked much more like a number line so I found this tidbit somewhat interesting and I certainly wouldn't mind learning about the methods and analysis used for this research study.

Whether you're a homeschooler, parent or educator, ordinal numbers should be taught during the learning of counting concepts. Ordinal numbers refer to a specific position and children should be able to identify the positional place by its ordinal name. Lineups tend to teach young learners a lot about first and last, but everything in between had an ordinal name as well. These free worksheets focus on the ordinal names from first to last using car races and ice cream scoops to teach the concept.