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math fun books games routines for early math
Series: About the Collaborative

New Book Tells Where to Find Math Fun in Books, Games, and Routines

September 11, 2019

Books, games, and routines are a natural entry point for math fun in the early years. A new book tells how to tap into children's curiosity to explore the math that is found in everyday life and in play.

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Games
how to teach patterns to preschoolers, growing patterns, pattern books for kindergarten
Series: Book Ideas August 28, 2019

5 Books and Songs for Exploring Growing Patterns

Cumulative tales and rhymes illustrate growing patterns, typically an increase or decrease by one on each page. As the growing pattern is revealed through the story, children get excited because they can figure out "what…

  • Topic: Pattern
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Animals, Culture, Jacqueline Woodson, Graeme Base, Demi, We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past, The Waterhole, Two of Everything, One Grain of Rice, Lily Toy Hong
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
Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles
Series: Ideas at Work June 8, 2019

Build Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles

A tangram puzzle consists of seven pieces — five triangles and two quadrilaterals made from one square. Tangrams originated in China hundreds of years ago. They traveled to Europe in the 1800’s, where they gained…

  • Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
  • Tags Play, Family Math, Grandfather Tang's Story, Ann Tompert
mathematical thinking early math collaborative
Series: Adult Learning May 30, 2019

Video Analysis of Children’s Mathematical Thinking

Looking at a video from our Focus on the Child series, Collaborative member Donna Johnson leads a discussion about the mathematical thinking of a child during a comparison task. This is an example of how…

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags video analysis
Series: Adult Learning May 29, 2019

Video Analysis of Preschool Number Sense Activity

Collaborative member Donna Johnson leads teachers in a discussion about an activity designed to build number sense in a video from our Focus on the Lesson series. This is an example of how we use…

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags video analysis
playing card games early math
Series: Focus on Play April 29, 2019

A New Focus for Familiar Card Games

Here you can download cards and simple-to-learn game ideas to help young children build their understanding of early math concepts such as cardinality, composing and comparing numbers, and allowing them to subitize.

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Subitizing, Play, Games, Equivalence, Dot cards, Family Math, Cardinality, En Español, download
simple graph graphs for kids graphing for kids what is data analysis in math books
Series: Book Ideas March 24, 2019

3 Books That Encourage Simple Graph Explorations with Young Ones

At the heart of it, graphing in the early years is about quantifying information in order to answer a question. That requires children to organize data in some visible way so that comparisons and generalizations…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Graphing, Shoes, Comparing, Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Flea Market, Which Would You Rather Be?, William Steig, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne
Measurable Attributes Ordering Similar Objects
Series: Adult Learning February 27, 2019

Ordering Similar Objects by Measurable Attributes

Early childhood teacher candidates engage in an adult learning activity that has them order and reorder objects by size according to different attributes.

  • Topic: Measurement
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
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