KOAM-TV: Kids use math constantly, early-childhood education expert says

An article on KOAM-TV in Kansas quotes Douglas Clements, professor of learning and instruction and an expert on early childhood math education, on research that examined preschoolers' free-play activities and found that nearly half of every minute was spent doing some kind of math, usually patterns and shapes. "Math is much more than numbers -- it's about space and measurement and the structure and geometry of space. It all starts with kids trying to stack blocks and realizing that with the triangular shaped blocks, it just won't work," he said.