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early math learning family engagement
Series: Focus on Collaboration

School Event Engages Families in Early Math Learning

June 19, 2019

Families play a fundamental role in shaping children's interest and skills in math. Schools can help connect the math that exists both in and out of school and nurture families' positive relationship to math.

  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Games, Family Math
Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles
Series: Ideas at Work June 8, 2019

Build Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles

A tangram puzzle consists of seven pieces — five triangles and two quadrilaterals made from one square. Tangrams originated in China hundreds of years ago. They traveled to Europe in the 1800’s, where they gained…

  • Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
  • Tags Play, Family Math, Grandfather Tang's Story, Ann Tompert
simple graph graphs for kids graphing for kids what is data analysis in math books
Series: Book Ideas March 24, 2019

3 Books That Encourage Simple Graph Explorations with Young Ones

At the heart of it, graphing in the early years is about quantifying information in order to answer a question. That requires children to organize data in some visible way so that comparisons and generalizations…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Graphing, Shoes, Comparing, Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Flea Market, Which Would You Rather Be?, William Steig, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne
math patterns, pattern books for kindergarten
Series: Book Ideas January 11, 2019

4 Fun Books that Explore Math, Patterns, and Sequences

From an early age, children notice and appreciate patterns in the world around them. Patterns and sequences of different kinds begin to pop up all over the place, especially in the books that children love.

  • Topic: Pattern
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Animals, Eric Carle, Bill Martin Jr., Trudy Harris, Audrey Wood, Pattern Bugs, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?, I Went Walking, The Napping House, Sue Williams
Series: Focus on the Child December 8, 2018

Counting a Large Collection with Child 14

A second grader has a partial understanding of counting in equal groups, but is still working on rational counting. Focus on the Child videos are taken from one-on-one interviews with individual children. The interviews are…

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Child 14, Equivalence
adding and subtracting
Series: Focus on the Child November 17, 2018

Subtraction as the Inverse of Addition with Child 5

This second grader uses a known number combination (3 + 9) to solve a subtraction problem, showing an understanding of how addition and subtraction are related as inverse operations.

  • Topic: Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Child 5
Series: Ideas at Work November 7, 2018

Counting on Good Food for the Holidays

Traditions around food and feasts provide rich opportunities to connect math at school with children’s experiences at home. From Diwali to Thanksgiving, fall is a season of special meals with loved ones.

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Seasonal, Holiday, Cathryn Falwell, Family Math, Feast for 10
Measuring Math Understanding of ELLs
Series: Hear from the Experts October 24, 2018

Measuring Math Understanding of ELLs with Barbara Sarnecka and David Purpura

A panel of early math experts engage with the audience at Promising Math 2017 to consider the challenges of getting a true picture of what young children understand about numbers.

  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Promising Math
Creating Opportunities for Early Math with Rodrigo Gutiérrez
Series: Hear from the Experts October 23, 2018

Creating Opportunities for Early Math with Rodrigo Gutiérrez

The role of play and importance of shared experiences in early math is discussed with Rodrigo Gutiérrez, Co-Director of the Center for Retention-Recruitment for Math Teachers at University of Arizona.

  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Culture, Promising Math
holiday math activities
Series: Book Ideas October 22, 2018

A Holiday with Too Many Tamales

How is it possible to have too many tamales? Well, Maria finds out in the holiday storybook Too Many Tamales by author Gary Soto.

  • Topic: Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Seasonal, Food, Holiday, Books, Gary Soto, Family Math, Too Many Tamales
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