Preschool Math
Series: Focus on Collaboration
Focusing on What Teachers Learn From Student Work
April 11, 2017
Analyzing student work has many benefits, from better understanding children's current mathematical thinking to considering how to adjust instruction.
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Series: Hear from the Experts March 26, 2017
Tangram Puzzles: Make One For Your Kids
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!
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Games
Series: Book Ideas March 14, 2017
3 Animal Picture Books That Explore Questions About Data
Data analysis uses math to make sense of the world. It is compiling information and describing it in a quantitative way: how many?
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Graphing, Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger, Ann Whitehead Nagda, Cindy Bickel, How Many Snails?: A Counting Book, Paul Giganti Jr., Birds, Kevin Henkes
Series: Book Ideas February 22, 2017
Discussing Cultures and Shapes in A Triangle for Adaora
This delightful book emphasizes several Big Ideas in geometry, as well it provides an opportunity to explore diverse cultures and people.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Culture, Nature, Books, A Triangle for Adaora, Ifeoma Onyefulu
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2017
Explore Estimation While Enjoying a Whopper of a Tale!
This book is a delightful way to start a discussion about estimation in the early grades. Is it reasonable that Hugh Thomas caught a million fish?
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Estimation, Subitizing, Books, Numerosity, A Million Fish...More or Less, Patricia McKissack
Series: Ideas at Work February 6, 2017
Valentine’s Day Math Can Spark a Love of Symmetry
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 Seasonal, Holiday, Lois Ehlert, Color Farm, When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins, Rhonda Gowler, Operations
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 Keiko Kaza, A Mother for Choco, P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?, Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You, Deborah Heiligman, The Boy Who Loved Math, Kevin Henkes, Ann Tompert, Grandfather Tang's Story, Holiday, Seasonal, Lilly's Chocolate Heart
Series: About Early Math January 31, 2017
The Importance of Spatial Reasoning in Classrooms
This article outlines the benefits to spatial reasoning and expanding the learning that children experience regarding spatial reasoning in the early years.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten
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: Focus on Play November 14, 2016
Stacking Peg Towers
Math play in preK or kindergarten can become an opportunity to explore measurement, as is the case in this classroom.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Editing, in-progress
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