(Vol. 2, Issue 6, May 2011) Tana Hoban and Ann Morris are both gifted children’s book authors who combine minimal text with wonderful photos that beg to be pored over again and again. Many of them are organized around ideas that call for mathematizing. ...

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(Vol. 2, Issue 6, May 2011) The 2011-12 school year brings big changes for Erikson’s Early Math Project and its work with teachers. Not to worry—the project will continue to serve Chicago-area prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers and schools. What’s changing then? The project is expanding and changing its design and implementation to create a more intensive, long-term impact for teachers in the program....

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(Vol. 2, Issue 5, March 2011) Wanda Ocasio of Inter-American School saw the opportunity to use a Three Bears sorting lesson to investigate her preschoolers’ understanding of sorting, as well as explore this Big Idea in the context of a multilingual environment....

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(Vol. 2, Issue 5, March 2011) Whether a child’s home language is English, Spanish, or Swahili, wordless books are a great tool for supporting the child (and her family) in developing mathematical thinking and language....

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(Vol. 2, Issue 5, March 2011) On February 18th at the fourth core professional development workshop of the year, second-year seminar teachers joined the first-year teachers to showcase poster presentations they created, highlighting innovative ways to integrate math in prekindergarten and kindergarten classrooms....

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(Vol. 2, Issue 5, March 2011) It is tough learning two new languages at once. In the case of dual language learners (DLL), the two “languages” are often English and mathematics. Young children in classrooms where the language of instruction is not their dominant language can have challenges when it comes to learning math language, particularly positional words. ...

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(Vol. 2, Issue 4, February 2011) Sorting things into categories is one of the ways mathematics enters into our daily life. At “clean-up time,” children discover that forks and knives belong in one place, plates belong somewhere else, and glasses and cups belong in yet another place. As children and adults talk about what makes one set of things go together and why other things belong elsewhere, they are doing important talking—and thinking. ...

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(Vol. 2, Issue 4, February 2011) In January, several Early Mathematics Education Project staff members presented at the largest early childhood conference in the Midwest, the Opening Minds conference organized by Chicago Metro Association for the Education of Young Children (CMAEYC). ...

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(Vol. 2, Issue 4, February 2011) Olivia Trevino’s preschool class at Marsh Elementary School took advantage of all the winter weather to explore picture books about mittens. ...

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(Vol. 2, Issue 3, December 2010) Four Chicago Public Schools teachers have opened their classrooms to a professional video crew so that the Early Mathematics Education Project can capture early mathematics teaching and learning in action....

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