Children learn by doing - and math is no exception! Math emerges naturally through children's play and exploration. In The Path to Early Math, Dr. Ingrid Crowther guides readers in setting up the classroom environment to offer engaging, play-based math activities that fit easily across the curriculum. Early math learning predicts future academic success and is a progression of key concepts and skills that build upon one another and provide the foundation for other learning competencies, including literacy, language, making inferences, and problem solving. Dr. Crowther shows how to introduce and support learning in foundational math concepts: one-to-one correspondence, forming sets. object counting, patterning, measurement, two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes, parts and wholes, and computation. Provided by publisher.