'So, if you had two pairs, how many would you have?'Īfter thinking for a moment, he gave the answer : 'Four!' That was the question that gave the opportunity. Wanting to see how well Melvin's teachers had done, I tested him.

His kindergarten aimed not just to teach kids to recite numbers, but to give the little angels a true sense of what numbers mean. He had been going to kindergarten for almost a year. I asked my little tyke a similar question one day. But for everyone else? It just does! There's no why about it! One favorite question I hear is this : Why does two and two make four? Of course, there's a technical high-falutin' answer that only math professors could be bothered with. Not by rote learning! Think about your own understanding of real basic math. At the bottom of this page are links to several games designed to help a pre-school child grasp basic math concepts. If you are a parent or teacher of pre-school children, and if you are looking for games to build up their math, you've come to the right place.

Free online math games for kindergarten