Series: Book Ideas September 11, 2018

3 "Mathical" Books for More Advanced Counting

Along with being "mathical" award winners, these books provide compelling contexts that help primary grade children understand why more advanced counting is useful and that it isn’t always efficient to count by ones.

Series: Ideas at Work September 11, 2018

Preschool Number Sense Routine Perfect for Transitions

Moving from one activity to another just got a lot more mathematical with this simple routine that builds early number sense with preschoolers.

Series: Focus on the Lesson August 17, 2018

Dot Card Transition Activity

Transition time is a great time for mathematizing a daily routine. This dot card transition is a relatively simple routine that builds number sense in a concrete way.

Professional Development Module: Sets

Sets are basic to children’s thinking and learning. They are also basic to our number system. One of the most important jobs of each number is to describe “how many” there are in a set of things. This module is a flexible set of materials that explore the foundational math topic known as sets.

Promising Math

In October of 2017, the Collaborative hosted Promising Math, a conference meant to link the research, practice, and policy arms of early mathematics. This forum is a furthering of the mission of that event, with the goal to extend the thinking and learning that took place.

Series: Book Ideas March 22, 2018

3 "Mathical" Counting Books with Winning Appeal

The Mathical Book Prize is an annual award organized by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). With an aim to "inspire a love of mathematics in the everyday world in children of all ages," the winners…

Series: Ideas at Work January 29, 2018

Exploring the 3-Reads Math Protocol for Word Problems

Teachers in four schools recently experimented with a "problem stem" protocol for helping their children understand the math going on in the word problems they face in class. This was part of our Big Shoulders…

Series: Book Ideas January 10, 2018

3 Children’s Books that Build an Understanding of Equivalency

Long before young children are writing equations with the equal sign, they are exploring how amounts that look different can actually be equivalent.

Series: About the Collaborative December 19, 2017

10 for 10: Things We Love About the Collaborative

We call 10 a "friendly" number, a landmark, a benchmark. Whatever you call it, 10 is really big in early math, and it's really big to the Collaborative.