Early math skills and the importance of math in early childhood are typically overlooked. Normally, the kindergarten readiness, preschool, and early learning curricula place a heavy emphasis on writing, learning letters, and word recognition while ignoring basic math concepts, which are also critical abilities for children to learn as they reach elementary school.
A typical preschool timetable often excludes arithmetic from the curriculum. Based on a research done at the University of Denver while preschoolers spend six hours a day, only 58 seconds of math instruction are given each day. Here’s why math matters for kids.