Young Children’s Amazing Math

"Most adults are unaware of young children's remarkable "Everyday Math"-their ideas about shape, space, pattern, number, measurement, and more that are the foundation for the formal math taught in school. This book aims to correct the failure by helping adults to appreciate and enjoy young children's everyday math. The book highlights the everyday behavior of one young child from just before she turns 2 through age 5, when she does her first written math homework in kindergarten"--