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Activities, ideas, and discussion helping teachers think through maths in classrooms.
Series: Ideas at Work
What is a Number Path and How Does It Build Number Relationships?
February 22, 2023
Many of children’s favorite board games follow a path to a goal. Exploring a number path with young children also leads to a goal that is critical for early mathematics: understanding number relationships. What is…
- Topic: Number Sense, Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Games
Series: Book Ideas September 28, 2022
4 Playful Counting Books That Bring Numbers to Life
Counting books that offer children opportunities to participate bring play into math learning. These books engage children physically, cognitively, and emotionally—making them favorites that children will ask to read again and again.
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Family Math
Series: About the Collaborative July 26, 2022
Collaborative Math: Creating Sustainable Excellence for Head Start Programs
Early childhood center leaders play a crucial role in improving and sustaining program quality. New research supports the idea that involving center leaders in PD initiatives is a way to produce lasting systemic change. Research…
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
Series: Racial Justice July 20, 2022
Racial Justice in Early Math Resource List
One important component of racial justice work is the commitment to continuous learning and reflection. Regardless of how long you have been engaged in racial justice in early math, there is always something interesting, relevant,…
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
Series: Focus on the Child July 19, 2022
Noticing Same and Different: The Concept of Comparison with Infants and Toddlers
“More” is often one of children’s first words. Infants attend to differences, though they don’t yet discriminate between "more" as quantity or magnitude/size or intensity of sensation. Toddlers are beginning to differentiate between attributes and…
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
- Tags Comparing
Series: Ideas at Work June 6, 2022
How to Use Digital Photos to Build a Mathematical Language Routine for Kids
It turns out that mathematical thinking is developed in conversation with others; asking students “how do you know that?” will reveal a child’s mathematical reasoning skills. The ability to explain one’s thinking is a cognitive…
- Topic: Sets, Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags English Language Learner, Number Talks
Series: Focus on the Child March 10, 2022
The CAIR Principle to Tune into Math for Babies and Toddlers
We all know that babies aren’t born walking, talking, following directions, counting, or measuring size. But they do enter the world hard-wired with instincts that will mature and develop into those skills in the preschool…
- Topic: Precursor Concepts
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
Series: Racial Justice February 26, 2022
Developing a Framework for Racial Justice Centered Research in Early Math
This series from the Racial Justice in Early Math project highlights researchers, program facilitators, educators, and others who are actively working to advance the discussion around racial justice and the field of early mathematics. To…
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
Series: About Early Math December 27, 2021
In Appreciation of Bob Moses: His Legacy Spurs Action Today
Although I never met him personally, Bob Moses has shaped my life for the past two decades. Reading his book Radical Equations inspired me to focus my doctoral dissertation on math teaching and learning and…
- Tags racial justice
Series: About the Collaborative December 8, 2021
Groundbreaking Book Explains the Beginning of Math Concepts for Infants and Toddlers
Released in 2021 by Teachers College Press, this book extends professional knowledge for mathematics teaching to teachers who work with the very youngest learners.
- Topic: Precursor Concepts
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
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