Discussing math at home doesn’t have to be intimidating or anxiety-provoking. You can find plenty of places and situations around the house where math skills can be introduced.
In the kitchen:
1. Give everyone at the table a few pieces of food, such as crackers or carrots. Ask each child to count the items in his pile. Ask: ?Did everyone get an equal, or the same, amount" If not, how many pieces do you need to add to each pile to make them all the same"?

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5 ways to help develop STEM skills from a young age 2. Explore parts of a whole together, a step toward understanding division, as well as the idea of sharing. As you share a sandwich, say, ?I?m cutting the sandwich in half so we each get one piece.? Or ask, ?If there are three pieces of bread and six of us who want some, what can we do"?
In the bathroom:
3. Use different sizes and shapes of plastic cups and measuring cups to play with in the bath and to compare amounts. With younger kids, simply explore the concepts of ?full? and ?empty? by filling up cups and pouring them out together. Challenge older kids to predict which cup will hold the most water and which will hold the least before pouring water into each cup.
4. Play ?Sink and Float? in the bathtub by testing a v...