Math can be found anywhere. A few years ago, I had my three kids with me at the local high school, and in a large room, the floor was covered with many square tiles. Around an area of small squares were another few rows of larger tiles. I asked the kids to count how many squares there were, and they balked! “There’s too many!”
First I showed them how there were not only a lot of small squares, but that if we put four of those together, we got a larger square. And nine made yet a larger square, followed by sixteen and then twenty-five. If my kids had been older I probably would have told them...