Ruths reply is awesome (as always) but I wanted to add that with that think of how maybe a child who loves dinosaurs would likely to be more engaged in a maths based activity if it involved them somehow.
As an example, for a measuring activity..... Adult would like child to order something in size, child is not engaging with the activity of how many cubes in length the leaf is. Knowing the child's interest in dinosaurs the adult swapped the leaves for different sized dinosaurs now making the activity more appealing, opening a discussion (promoting communication skills, vocabulary and shared thinking) about triceratops being longer than the tyrannosaurus with the child, how could they find out, can they measure them with cubes?
I hope that is of some help.
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