With encouragement from their teachers and parents, young children can develop the necessary skills for life-long success and confidence in math just by interacting with the world around them. In fact, there are many fun and easy ways to introduce important math skills to young children without using the drill-and-practice method you may remember from your own school experience. Much of what you do with young children will not feel like traditional math at all. Developmentally, the best methods for encouraging young children to develop math skills include: