June 22, 2018
Halla Jmourko discusses two innovative instructional tools for integrating language and math concepts in the classroom, The Cubing Game and Three Way Tie.
Instructor Lisa Ginet explains how to make tangram puzzles, an ancient Chinese game made from seven shapes cut from a square. Over 6500 different arrangements can be made from these seven simple shapes!
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.
Phil Daro compares and contrasts the answer-getting learning style of the United States with the collaborative learning style of Japan.
On April 21, 2016, the Early Math Collaborative was invited to the White House to attend its Symposium on Early STEM.
Children, even at a very young age, have an incredible understanding of spatial relationships. Jan de Lange brings up the idea that elementary school classrooms might consider starting their math curriculum with spatial reasoning. Ideas…
Summing up the point of the day's lesson with the whole class is an extremely important, yet often neglected part of any math lesson.
Diane Briars describes math tasks as "the vehicles for mathematical learning." It is important that tasks require reasoning and problem solving strategies.
What is the quality of the instructional activities that students will be engaged with everyday? Diane Briars explores this question.
Diane Briars differentiates between the learning goals of a particular lesson and the Common Core State Standards associated with it.