Links from around the web about teaching and math practice for kids.
February 7, 2014
Collaborative Instructor Dr. Mary Hynes-Berry discusses math apps on the Fred Rogers Center blog.
"At Kohl Children’s Museum, we partner with a great team of early childhood researchers, professional development providers and teachers at Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative. One of the methods they promote is Mathematizing Daily Experiences.…
Listen to the full streaming podcast, taped June 6, 2013 for We Act Radio's Education Town Hall.
Research out of John Hopkins University and Michigan State University suggests that a strong link exists between young learners' spatial reasoning and computation abilities.
Recent research suggests that young children's first ideas about math might be in the form of very basic statistics.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a collection of online math-related applications appropriate for Pre-K – 12 students.
The New York Times examines one of the creative math projects developed by the Early Math Collaborative. The article follows a teacher taking part in our in-person math coaching.
"A big piece of our agenda is looking at the early childhood workforce. It’s so interesting for us to have young children, teacher development, the coaching model, and math together."
Children who have strong spatial reasoning abilities also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, researchers at the University of Chicago say. For more information about this…
The Chicago Tribune takes a look at the beginnings of the Early Math Collaborative.