It's easy for kids — and parents! — to see math as a school activity. We often think it's just about counting or adding or learning math facts. But by exploring the interesting ways math shapes the world around us, we can help our children begin to think like mathematicians and learn to love math.
Helping Your Six-Year-Old Learn to Love Math
The Queen of the Night
In this clip, your child can learn about nighttime activities and reading time on a digital clock.
Save the Park
The kids in Cyberspace need a place to play, but Buzz and Delete are ruining all of the play spaces. Your child can help save the park by matching numbered items with their appropriately sized spaces on the playground map.
Peg and Cat's Incredibly Popular Honey Cake
Yum… honey cake. Try three different sweet recipes while helping your child learn about patterns, standard measurements, and shapes.
Olive has the Skips!
When Olive goes missing with the case of the skips the agents figure out where to find her by using a skip pattern to locate her.
Aki the Ninja
Peg + Cat use their math skills to take away objects from Aki so she has one of each left.
Once you start looking for patterns, you will start to find them everywhere. There are patterns in colors, shapes, sounds, dances and even daily routines! Learning patterns is a skill that translates directly into algebraic thinking, so by exploring these ideas now, you will be setting the stage for bigger math ideas later.Learn More
Otto's Soundcheck Room
One of the Odd Squad agents makes a prediction about which restaurant the missing band member would be located in.
Bianca Gets a Clue
Bianca uses problem solving and deductive reasoning to figure out who stole the missing piece of art in the museum.
Beethoven's Square Cut
Your child will learn about making 2D shapes from other shapes, and that a square has 4 equal sides.
Math in the Bath - Symmetrical Pizza
Peg teaches Cat about the line of symmetry in their imaginary pizza.
Odd Squad agents work for identify the shapes they need to fix the Switch-Inator.
I Love Shapes
In this game, your child helps Curious George catch shapes. Deciding what shapes to catch can help build your child's decision making abilities.
Don't Go Bananas
Peg needs help counting the monkeys at the circus, but the monkeys are all hiding. Your child can spin a wheel to find out how many monkeys Peg wants to count next and then look for the hidden monkeys in the circus picture.
Training Video #1624 - How to Deal with a Spider-Cat Bite
Your child will learn to use clues, and to identify a more complex pattern.
Welcome to the North Control Room
Your child will learn about using the greater than and less than symbols to describe relationships between numbers.
Math in the Bath - Chicken Dance
Your child will learn about simple 2D shapes and how to transform them into different shapes.
Missing in My Room
Peg and Cat have so much stuff! Your child can help them find what they are looking for by searching through this printable seek and find picture.
Help Your Child Learn to Love Math with Peg + Cat
Through engaging stories and comedy, Peg + Cat encourages your child to see math as exciting, accessible, and fun. The show teaches measurement, shapes and patterns, and problem-solving skills that children can use in their everyday lives.Find Activities