1st Grade Math
Series: Ideas at Work
Valentine’s Day Math Can Spark a Love of Symmetry
February 6, 2017
Cutting paper hearts for Valentine’s Day math fun is a common, early experience with symmetry for many young children.
- Topic: Number Operations, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Operations, Seasonal, Holiday, Lois Ehlert, Color Farm, When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins, Rhonda Gowler
Series: Book Ideas February 1, 2017
5 Books for Valentine’s Day That Inspire a LOVE for Math
Every Valentine’s Day children talk about caring, friendship, and love. They can also explore math concepts in the books that are read this time of year.
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Are You My Mother?, Seasonal, P.D. Eastman, Holiday, A Mother for Choco, Grandfather Tang's Story, Keiko Kaza, Ann Tompert, Kevin Henkes, Lilly's Chocolate Heart, The Boy Who Loved Math, Deborah Heiligman, Guess How Much I Love You, Sam McBratney
Series: Book Ideas January 3, 2017
4 Books That Inspire Algebraic Thinking in Young Children
One of the best ways to delve into the rules and patterns that govern algebra is through the books that are read to children each and every day.
- Topic: Precursor Concepts, Sets, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Books, Eric Carle, Audrey Wood, Tana Hoban, Is it Red? Is it Yellow? Is it Blue?, The Napping House, Mary Ann Hoberman, Rooster's Off to See the World, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Series: Book Ideas October 25, 2016
4 Books That Can Expand Children’s Spatial Sense
A great way for kids to explore spatial relationships is to read books that call for them to think about where objects are in relation to something else.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Mapping, Books, Eric Carle, Tana Hoban, Joan Sweeney, Marcia Vaughan, The Secret Birthday Message, We're Going on a Ghost Hunt, Me on the Map, Seasonal, Over Under and Through
Series: Hear from the Experts October 25, 2016
Language, Culture, and Math Through Storytelling with Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis
Sylvia Celadón-Pattichis advocates storytelling as a means to vary the context of word problems to make them more relevant and accessible to young, dual-language learners.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Promising Math, Culture
Series: Focus on Play August 25, 2016
Matching Cards Game in PreK
A quick matching game with dot cards is a fun way for preschoolers to practice recognizing small sets without counting.
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
- Tags Games, Dot cards, Subitizing
Series: Focus on Play August 24, 2016
Measuring a Block Tower with Kindergartners
Building block towers provides a natural opportunity to measure height. In this scene, children use strings and a broom.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
- Tags Blocks
Series: Book Ideas August 4, 2016
The Math in Learning Names
Do the children in your classroom know each other’s names? At winter break, are they still pointing to “that girl?” Doing activities in the early weeks of school that use the children’s own names will…
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Chrysanthemum, Juana Martinez-Neal, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Books, Kevin Henkes
Series: Book Ideas July 25, 2016
4 More Kids’ Books Packed with Geometry
For kids books, geometry doesn't have to just be reciting the shapes. Here are books that can begin rich geometrical discussions.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Daniel Kirk, Betsy Franco, Lois Ehlert, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucy Micklethwait, Color Farm, Color Zoo, Block City, Animals, Blocks, Grandpa's Quilt, Arts, I Spy Shapes in Art, Pat Hutchins
Series: About Early Math July 19, 2016
Importance of Early Math Often Overlooked
This article, which includes powerful words by our own Dr. Jie-Qi Chen, describes the importance of early math, how it is often shortchanged in classrooms, and explains techniques that are becoming increasingly common for bringing…
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