Description: To help children grow into kids who are good at and love math, it is most important to instill, before elementary school, the experience and belief that 'math is fun' through play. The author of this book is a mother of three children (a middle schooler, a 5th grader, and a 2nd grader) and a veteran math instructor with over 15 years of experience in the private math education field. She has compiled 77 'everyday math play' ideas that she has taught nationwide for the past 7 years through the Puumi Academy on the parenting website Puumi.com (www.prumi.com). The author believes that for math to be fun, children need to learn it easily, joyfully, and naturally through everyday life. Starting from around her eldest child's first birthday, she introduced math through play rather than mechanical workbook drills — raising her eldest daughter to be recognized as a Math Gifted Student by the Office of Education in 2010 and an English Gifted Student in 2011, and her younger daughter as a Math Gifted Student in both 2012 and 2013. The book presents math play activities that mothers and children ages 3 to 7 can easily enjoy in everyday life without special preparation, helping them naturally grasp mathematical concepts and principles. These activities are organized into six areas: Numbers, Classification, Operations, Measurement, Spatial Shapes, and Math Manipulatives.