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ages 2-6
6 articles on ages 2-6, newest first.
Kindergarten at Home: A Realistic Week for a Two to Six-Year-OldNot a curriculum. A week of ten-minute sessions that covers letters, numbers, shapes and thinking, designed around the attention span a small child actually has.Read the article →
The One Question That Doubles What a Young Child LearnsIt is three letters long, it costs nothing, it works on every subject, and most of us stop asking it the moment the child gets the answer right.Read the article →
Counting to 20: Why Reciting Numbers Is Not the Same as CountingPlenty of three-year-olds can chant to twenty. Ask them to hand you four biscuits and many will hand you a fistful. The gap between those two things is the whole of early number sense.Read the article →
What Comes Next? Patterns Are One of the Strongest Early Predictors of MathsRed, blue, red, blue, … A child who can finish that row is doing something research has repeatedly linked to their mathematics achievement years later. Here is why, and how to practise it.Read the article →
Odd One Out: The Two-Minute Game That Teaches a Three-Year-Old to ReasonFour pictures, one that does not belong. It looks like a puzzle, but it is the first piece of real logical thinking a small child can do, and the learning happens in the answer to "why?", not the tap.Read the article →
How to Judge a Learning App for a Four-Year-Old: Seven TestsEvery app in the education category says it is educational. Seven checks, none of which take more than a minute, will tell you whether this one is built for your child or for your attention.Read the article →Related topics