Thank you for those ideas! esp the link to the unboxededucation videos.

Wow, this is VERY helpful. Love that JUMP math is in French (yay Canada)

Marshmallow Math is avail on Kindle for $3 so that's easy. JUMP seems to start for grade 1 (my daughter just turned 6 and is in K), but I might start by reading John Mighton's book the End of Ignorance. 

Re Rightstart math, any thoughts on how needed/valuable the physical abacus is? I think we will look into the games.

Lastly, any experience with the Cuisenaire rods? I came across them because someone had mentioned Miquon math in another thread, and my husband remembers them fondly from his childhood. The rods are avail on Amazon, but not clear to me where one finds activity guidance for them.

Thanks again for these suggestions!! I'm rather thrilled by the thought that the kids could avoid my own stereotypically "I don't like math" childhood.

Hello everyone,

I'm rather late to the early learning approach; stumbled on Brillkids when looking into music education for the kids. (Ended up buying Little Musician, which both kids love.)

Now I'm considering math, partly because my husband really wants to push our 6 year old daughter. This is a little of a sore subject for me, because I am the daughter of a physicist and to his life-long dismay, I've never been good at math. Having bad memories of being drilled at the dinner table, I'd been planning to leave math education up to the school system.

I only looked into Little Math because I liked the music program so much, but seems like we've probably missed our window for using it.

Can anyone recommend a good resource that would help me understand how we can help our 3 and 6 year old kids learn math? They are bilingual and at a french school, so getting a french preschool curriculum.

A good overview book on the topic would be terrific, as I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by all the apps, flashcards, workbooks, etc that are mentioned in this forum. Thank you!