It occurs to me that lots of "daughter skills" are pretty math-heavy: cooking (recipes), sewing (patterns) and knitting (stitch counting) just to name the first things that come to mind. Is that "practicing" math?
I'd say so. Nearly all of our "prescriptives" about proportional thinking starts out with recipes Example: That or an animal corresponding to number of legs in a group of said animal. Identifying patterns are also a big one for younger ages. Most of this all builds into more complex ideas like similar (proportional) geometric shapes and exponential growths/series and sequences down the line. Best I can tie stitch counting back to is analytical thinking?3 eggs makes 1 omelette. How many eggs will it take to make X omelettes, and vice versa.
Whelp, you start with a pattern. Then you have to size it. Then you have to try it out with your yarn and needles a few times with adjustments. Then you run everything through your conversion factor. It's like a recipe except with trial and error, multiple conversion factors and the necessity of remembering multiple different things with their hands.Best I can tie stitch counting back to is analytical thinking?