The cards are intended as a conversational aid for you. Bring them into your daily dialogue. Find ways to talk – now and then – about quantities, numbers, related words and concepts. That someone has troubled to print a neat '5' or a 'five' cards can demonstrate that it has significance, importance, meaning, special attention. Your child will absorb all of this and file it away as 'worth remembering', and 'Dad told me...'.
Another intent when producing these cards was to provide a helpful visual aid for parents. Ditto paragraph one.
It is inadvisable to allow your infant to use them as a tactile aid. If you treat 'your' cards with respect your child will be storing that information away.
How to use the cards remains up to you and your ability to provide the many stimuli above. On the rest of this site we have many examples of things to do – for all ages. Go browse!
During the first year your child is developing experiences by sight and sound. He/she is rapidly gaining knowledge about his/her new life.
'Learning' about life is not the same as 'learning' maths. The latter requires many months experience of life skills: which may not have matured sufficiently to match the 'teaching'.
The greater the variety of experiences: the wider the child's mental grasp of 'life stuff'.
Usk Cards are just one small piece of the large jigsaw.
Further relevant links:
| Examples
| Learning to Count
| Suggested Activities |