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Series: Focus on Play
A Race to Ten, Both Fun and Mathematical
July 25, 2017
Creating grid games from classroom materials can be a great opportunity for fun and mathematical discussions involving small sets.
- Topic: Counting, Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Games, Subitizing
Series: Focus on Play July 25, 2017
The Math in Ten Using a Grid Game
Grid games can be some of the earliest experiences children have with board games. And they can be both fun and mathematical.
- Topic: Counting, Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Games, Subitizing
Series: Focus on Play March 30, 2017
Developing Ideas of Attribute While Reading to Babies
Before true mathematical thought develops in childhood, babies explore precursor concepts that can be nurtured, including during reading time.
Series: Focus on Play March 28, 2017
Early Exploration of Attributes with an Avocado
This charming interaction between caregiver and a toddler reveals a number of very early or "precursor" concepts of math.
Series: Focus on Play March 27, 2017
Comparison Using Tubes with Toddlers
A moment between adult and toddler using balls and tubes can be a nice opportunity to explore important "precursor" concepts of math.
Series: Focus on Play November 14, 2016
Stacking Peg Towers
Math play in preK or kindergarten can become an opportunity to explore measurement, as is the case in this classroom.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Editing, in-progress
Series: Focus on Play November 14, 2016
Comparing Capacity at the Sand Table
What kind of "big" is it? Children explore the differences between tall and wide as they explore which bucket holds the most sand.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Capacity, Play
Series: Focus on Play November 10, 2016
Making a Block Sandwich with Kindergartners
Thinking about sandwiches cut in half leads this boy to explore shape composition and equivalence with blocks.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Blocks
Series: Focus on the Child October 11, 2016
Repeating Patterns with Child 14
A child is pushed to decipher the repeating pattern in an array of blocks. Then he attempts to continue the pattern.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
Series: Focus on the Lesson September 26, 2016
Attendance Routine to Build Number Sense
This Spanish-language example of a rekenrek attendance routine demonstrates how one teacher can mathematize an everyday activity.
- Topic: Counting, Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags English Language Learner, Rekenrek
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