1st Grade Math
Series: Book Ideas
Different Types of Shapes and Nonexamples to Spark Geometric Learning
July 29, 2019
It’s up to us to find, share, and talk about a variety of shapes with children in ways that expand their understanding and build connections between the shapes drawn on paper and the concrete objects in our world.
- Topic: Precursor Concepts, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Shapes Shapes Shapes, Now What? A Math Tale, Robie H. Harris, Tana Hoban, Attribute
Series: Focus on Collaboration June 19, 2019
School Event Engages Families in Early Math Learning
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
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
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 Mitsumasa Anno, Graphing, Anno’s Flea Market, Shoes, Which Would You Rather Be?, Comparing, William Steig, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne
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 I Went Walking, The Napping House, Sue Williams, Eric Carle, Bill Martin Jr., Trudy Harris, Animals, Audrey Wood, Pattern Bugs, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?
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…
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
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
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 Promising Math, Culture
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