Many adults feel comfortable with math.
But as we all know, math is essential to daily life, buying and selling, budgeting, saving and is crucial to an understanding of chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, medicine. The logic it teaches is good training for solving mysteries, for philosophy, for thinking clearly and making decisions. When children are very young they already express an interest in their age, in counting on their fingers, in knowing their phone number and address. Even at age 3 their natural curiosity about numbers is evident. And this will be a life-long gift, not only helping them do well in school, but more important, helping them do well in life.