Sounds like something the kids will drop as soon as they'll become independent enough.
I count stuff(so "do math") as a habit and it's like that because my mother was slipping it into daily activities in an unstructured way.
Some examples:
When we were back from doing groceries we would sometimes weigh the bags and see how heavy they were. We would also keep track of our own weights and heights.
I could play with things like measuring tape.
She would give me and my sister coins and ask what can be bought with them, so that we could get the thing.
If I wanted a learning toy that taught me about numbers, I could have it.
I was allowed to set the time on the microwave when I was like four.
After some pestering she crafted a "counter" for me out of plastic caps, carboard and one of those sticks that you use to check if whatever is in the oven is done.
We also read every number we saw.
This is all stuff that happened before I went to school, at which point I was already ahead of most of the class without even seeing it as much of an effort.
The biggest challenge in this kind of parenting appears to be the psychology of puberty: At some age kids start to actively seek interests in fields their parents do NOT encourage or approve of. There was a post a while ago suggesting ways to make undesirable traits (like taking drugs) "uncool" but that might backfire too.
I count stuff(so "do math") as a habit and it's like that because my mother was slipping it into daily activities in an unstructured way.
Some examples:
When we were back from doing groceries we would sometimes weigh the bags and see how heavy they were. We would also keep track of our own weights and heights.
I could play with things like measuring tape.
She would give me and my sister coins and ask what can be bought with them, so that we could get the thing.
If I wanted a learning toy that taught me about numbers, I could have it.
I was allowed to set the time on the microwave when I was like four.
After some pestering she crafted a "counter" for me out of plastic caps, carboard and one of those sticks that you use to check if whatever is in the oven is done.
We also read every number we saw.
This is all stuff that happened before I went to school, at which point I was already ahead of most of the class without even seeing it as much of an effort.