Math

Counting, shapes and patterns, then numbers that grow with you.

By age: 0–2 · 3–5 · 6–8 · 9–12 · 13–17

Ages 0 to 2

A grown-up reads and plays along

• Counting what you touch about 5 minutes
• Big, small, more, all gone about 5 minutes
• Shapes at home about 5 minutes
• One, two, many about 5 minutes

Ages 3 to 5

Read and do together

• Counting to twenty about 10 minutes
• Patterns everywhere about 10 minutes
• Sorting and comparing about 10 minutes
• Measuring with hands and spoons about 10 minutes
• More and fewer about 10 minutes
• Putting together about 10 minutes
• Taking away about 10 minutes
• Sides and corners about 10 minutes
• Odd and even about 10 minutes
• Halves and quarters about 10 minutes
• Before, after and in between about 10 minutes
• Play shop with coins about 15 minutes

Ages 6 to 8

Read together, then try alone

• Tens and ones about 15 minutes
• Adding and taking away to twenty about 15 minutes
• Telling the time about 20 minutes
• Coins and notes about 20 minutes
• Shapes and symmetry about 15 minutes
• Multiplying by 2, 5 and 10 about 20 minutes
• Measuring length about 20 minutes
• Reading a bar chart about 20 minutes

Ages 9 to 12

Read alone or together

• Multiplication patterns about 25 minutes
• Fractions as parts of a whole about 30 minutes
• Area and perimeter about 30 minutes
• Decimals and measuring about 30 minutes
• Percentages about 25 minutes
• Angles and triangles about 25 minutes
• The mean and the median about 25 minutes
• Negative numbers about 25 minutes

Ages 13 to 17

Read alone

• Ratios, rates and percentages about 45 minutes
• Solving linear equations about 45 minutes
• Probability and chance about 45 minutes
• Reading graphs critically about 45 minutes
• Functions and graphs about 40 minutes
• Sampling and bias about 35 minutes
• Geometry and proof about 40 minutes
• Compound interest and exponential growth about 40 minutes