extend the learning: in the waiting room

Want to help boost your child's mighty math powers? Team Umizoomi's Educational Consultant, Christine Ricci, Ph.D., has ideas for simple math games you and your child can play every day that will strengthen skills with numbers, shapes, counting, comparing, and more, while also building math confidence.

While in a waiting room at the doctor's or dentist's office (or even in line at the store) open a magazine to any random page. For younger children, ask them to find one thing on the page that is a square or a circle. See if they can spot something blue or yellow. Do they see any numbers on the page?