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Math for Toddlers

math for babies and toddlers
Series: Focus on the Child

The CAIR Principle to Tune into Math for Babies and Toddlers

March 10, 2022

We all know that babies aren’t born walking, talking, following directions, counting, or measuring size. But they do enter the world hard-wired with instincts that will mature and develop into those skills in the preschool…

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
math concepts for infants and toddlers
Series: About the Collaborative December 8, 2021

Groundbreaking Book Explains the Beginning of Math Concepts for Infants and Toddlers

Released in 2021 by Teachers College Press, this book extends professional knowledge for mathematics teaching to teachers who work with the very youngest learners.

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
math activities for infants and toddlers
Series: Focus on the Child September 22, 2021

Math Activities for Infants and Toddlers are Everyday Explorations

Long before they can talk or explain, babies are thinking logically and exploring ordinary everyday objects, sensations, and experiences that are new to them. Encouraging and celebrating their explorations and discoveries is a highly effective…

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers
  • Tags Family Math
early childhood teachers, covid, remote
Series: About Early Math December 27, 2020

Early Childhood Teachers Look Back on a Year Like No Other

The Collaborative interviewed three Chicago-area early childhood teachers who spoke honestly about the challenges and rewards of teaching during the pandemic.

  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
more more more, more and less, best books for toddlers
Series: Book Ideas November 11, 2020

Best Books for Toddlers to Spark More Talk about More and Less

It’s easy to turn reading books with toddlers into conversations about the math that is all around us. The idea of more and less comes into all kinds of books and finger plays toddlers love—including…

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts
  • Age/Grade Level: Toddlers
  • Tags Family Math
Chores for Kids Help Find Math Around House
Series: Ideas at Work October 14, 2020

Chores for Kids Can Help Them Find Math Around the House

With young children at home, there’s always cleaning to be done. So why not include them in completing the chores? Chores can engage everyone in the household in a little “math all around us” problem-solving.

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts, Spatial Relationships
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Family Math
Homemade Playdough Recipe for Shape Fun
Series: Ideas at Work September 11, 2020

Homemade Playdough Recipe for Shape Fun

Stamping or imprinting with a homemade playdough recipe using everyday household items is an active way for children to explore the big ideas of shape.

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Family Math
types of shapes and nonexamples
Series: Book Ideas July 29, 2019

Different Types of Shapes and Nonexamples to Spark Geometric Learning

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…

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Tana Hoban, Attribute, Shapes Shapes Shapes, Now What? A Math Tale, Robie H. Harris
early math learning family engagement
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: Book Ideas September 26, 2017

Count on Feasting: Delectable Holiday Math Activities

The holidays are coming up, and usually that involves a lot of eating. This provides plenty of opportunities to find math all around us.

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts, Counting, Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Seasonal, Food, Holiday, Gary Soto, Cathryn Falwell, Too Many Tamales, Feast for 10, Mary Ann Hoberman, One of Each
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