Here are some tips for parents to help their kindergartener’s math learning:

• Give your child plenty of opportunities to count. Count steps, coins, toys, collections etc.
• Read the calendar, and determine the number of days until a special event.
• Have your child count coins when paying for an item.
• Have your child distribute cookies or toys to family members, with each person getting an equal number.
• Ask your child to find items that are flat shapes (triangles, rectangles, hexagons) and solid shapes (cubes, cylinders, cones) and other shapes around the house or when you’re at the grocery store.
• Dice games and dominos help kids learn to quickly recognize groups of dots from 2 to 12.
• Play the card game, War. This game can be played a number of ways.  One way is the traditional way in which players compare two cards and take the highest. Another version is flipping over two cards at the same time, the sum or the difference of the cards can be compared. The higher number takes the cards from both players.
• Read Math Literature.

ABCya has fantastic math games.