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.
A student gives and receives orders about where to put a stuffed animal.
A kindergartner explores weight with a pan balance.
A child seriates cups by their capacity.
Jennifer McCray, director of Erikson's Early Math Collaborative, continues her talk on some of the most common misconceptions about early math education.
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.
Yeap Ban Har explains the Lesson Study approach.
Jennifer McCray, director of Erikson's Early Math Collaborative, continues her talk on some of the major misunderstandings about what goes into teaching mathematics to young students. In this section, she focuses on how children gradually…
In this video, students compare the size of their hands to objects around the classroom to find ones that are "just right."
In this video, a preschool-age English Language Learner uses direction words to tell a story about finding a lost teddy bear.