[Spearchucker]

Holy moly what's this obsession with teaching pre-schoolers school stuff? When do kids just play anymore? I swear in another year or so a startup will start up that teaches unborn babies calculus while they're still in the womb.

The insanity is saddening. Happily my son who is 6 is oblivious to math but brilliant at Lego, incredible at drawing, and astoundingly proficient at laughing. When he eats ice cream he uses his whole face. Love it, love him, and I wish sometimes he never has to grow up.

[lern_too_spel]

The article is about about playing with math. There's no lecturing or grading, just exploring and trying puzzles.

In that context, your claim is that playing with a knife is just as good as playing with math, that singing nonsense songs is just as good as singing the alphabet song. The kid has fun either way, but one style of play will lead to a kid who is a confident learner, and the other will lead to a kid who gets frustrated at school and thinks he is not as smart as his peers.

[pavel_lishin]

Play is learning, and teaching your kids to love mathematics doesn't take away time at the playground. None of this is mutually exclusive.