With experience, young children get “tuned in” to patterns and deepen their understanding of them both in the classroom and More →
Big Ideas
Sets can be compared and ordered.
When young children are exposed to the Big Idea that the same collection can be sorted in different ways, they More →
The same collection can be sorted in different ways.
Children who are aware of the Big Idea that sets can be compared and ordered know that organizing things into More →
Attributes can be used to sort collections into sets.
Young children who understand the Big Idea that attributes can be used to sort collections into sets have a working More →
Counting has rules that apply to any collection.
Thanks to TV shows like Sesame Street, many children enter preschool chanting or singing the number names from 1 to More →
Counting can be used to find out “how many” is in a collection.
How much? and How many? are fundamental “Big Idea” questions that are so embedded in our everyday life that we More →