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Grownups Our Mission
Math-esteem is shaped by early experiences with numbers at home, in preschool and in kindergarten. The mission of Zero & Friendstm is to help children (ages 3-6) develop positive math-esteem and to prevent the onset of math anxiety that is so prevalent in today's society.
Why Zero & Friendstm?
Zero & Friendstm was created to empower children with the essential building blocks of positive math-esteem.
Number Literacy = 1 + 2 + 3
1 Identify by name, the abstract written symbols 0-10, in order, out of order and in isolation.
2 Recognize and name the number of items represented when presented with quantities of 0 - 10.
3 Manipulate whole numbers 0-10 (adding and subtracting).
Parents
Remember when the central focus of kindergarten was social development? Sadly, those days are long gone. Today, kindergarten has become the 1st grade of yesteryear. What is even more unfortunate is that a critical disconnect has emerged in math readiness between preschool and kindergarten.
Presently, the majority of children enter kindergarten with only a rote knowledge of numbers. Yet children are routinely introduced to larger numbers before they can easily navigate between the number names, values and written symbols 0-10. For many children, this can lead to the onset of math anxiety which in turn can lead to low math-esteem.