March 26, 2013
A story about bears moving in and out of a cave provides an opportunity for math thinking.
A student determines the relative lengths of different objects.
The award winning classic children’s story Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is one that preschoolers love to act out. Using discussion to make some connections to the children’s own lives, and to math, can…
A kindergartner demonstrates how high he can count.
A child counts forwards and backwards using a number line with hidden digits.
Recent research suggests that young children's first ideas about math might be in the form of very basic statistics.
A child attempts to duplicate a pattern using colored blocks.
A child makes patterns using keys.
A child computes how many are missing from a larger group.
All kinds of confusion can result when children are asked to rattle off the numbers from 1 to 10 or 20 or higher without actually counting something. In our learning labs and activities we are…