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Activities, ideas, and discussion helping teachers think through maths in classrooms.
Series: Book Ideas
Sorting It Out with Buttons and Books
February 18, 2013
Sorting things into categories is one of the ways mathematics enters into our daily life. Talking about attributes and qualities such as size, shape, texture, and color encourages children to look more closely at things.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Books, Sort It Out!, Barbara Mariconda, The Button Box, Margarette S. Reid
Series: Book Ideas, Ideas at Work February 18, 2013
Exploring Geometry with The Secret Birthday Message
Sharon Hogan and her preschool class at Peterson School had all kinds of fun with the way Eric Carle’s The Secret Birthday Message plays with the two main faces of geometry—shapes and spatial sense.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags English Language Learner, Mapping, Books, Eric Carle, The Secret Birthday Message
Series: Ideas at Work February 15, 2013
Three Bears Sort in a Dual Language Classroom
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…
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2013
Measuring with Books, Blocks, and Even Penguins
There are any number of wonderful books that give children very concrete images to show how big creatures are and to make comparisons to their own size.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Big and Small, Books, Actual Size, Prehistoric Actual Size, Steve Jenkins, Penguins!, Anne Schreiber
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2013
What Kind of Counting Book Is It?
There’s nothing like a stack of attractive counting books to help young children explore number. However, it’s worth taking the time to analyze exactly how the numbers in the book are put to work, so…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Books, April Pulley Sayre, Donald Crews, Ten Black Dots, One is a Snail Ten is a Crab, One Duck Stuck, Phyllis Root
Series: Ideas at Work February 15, 2013
A Colorful Book to Brighten the Dog-Gone Day
Daniela Giralt at Gunsaulus Elementary, a 2010-11 Early Math participant, used the book Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd to help her preschoolers explore the Big Ideas of counting. First in the whole group, children…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Dog's Colorful Day, Emma Dodd
Series: Book Ideas February 14, 2013
Exploring with Me on the Map and Where Do I Live?
Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney and Where Do I Live? by Neil Chesanow are two books that give children a way to explore where they are in relationship to other things and places.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Mapping, Books, Joan Sweeney, Me on the Map, Where Do I Live?, Neil Chesanow
Series: Ideas at Work February 14, 2013
Algebraic Thinking with Shoes
Cindy Collado and her preschool class at Stock School were involved in a shoe project that incorporated many math concepts through a variety of activities over the course of two months. The class started by…
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Graphing, Shoes
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