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playing card games early math
Series: Focus on Play

A New Focus for Familiar Card Games

April 29, 2019

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 Games, Equivalence, Subitizing, Dot cards, Family Math, Cardinality, En Español, Play, 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 Mitsumasa Anno, Graphing, Anno’s Flea Market, Shoes, Which Would You Rather Be?, Comparing, 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
Series: Adult Learning February 25, 2019

Exploring Unit Block Relationships

Examining sets of unit blocks challenges educators to think about relationships of the blocks. A deeper understanding of the features of unit blocks empowers teachers to support children in ways that promote joyful math learning.

  • Topic: Number Operations, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Blocks
annos counting book activity
Series: Adult Learning February 25, 2019

Different Uses of Numbers with Anno’s Counting Book

Books are a powerful way to launch math investigations with children, but also with adult learners. Our Learning Labs often use picture books as a doorway into mathematics. Here, teachers explore multiple representations of the…

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Counting Book
Series: Adult Learning February 24, 2019

Math-Related Greeting Builds Safe Learning Community

Our Learning Labs open with greetings that serve the dual purpose of building a safe learning community while introducing a math topic in a fun, accessible way. Here, adults directly compare the lengths of paper…

  • Topic: Measurement
  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten
how many
Series: Focus on the Child January 29, 2019

Many Ways to See How Many

Regardless of how high a preschooler can rote count, a child’s sense of what those numbers actually mean develops gradually. We call this understanding number sense, and it requires relating numbers to real quantities.

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Dot cards, Estimation, Unifix Cubes, Subitizing, Gesture
math patterns, pattern books for kindergarten
Series: Book Ideas January 11, 2019

4 Fun Books that Explore Math, Patterns, and Sequences

From an early age, children notice and appreciate patterns in the world around them. Patterns and sequences of different kinds begin to pop up all over the place, especially in the books that children love.

  • Topic: Pattern
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags The Napping House, Sue Williams, Eric Carle, Bill Martin Jr., Trudy Harris, Animals, Audrey Wood, Pattern Bugs, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?, I Went Walking
three dimensional shapes
Series: Focus on the Child December 12, 2018

Transforming Three-Dimensional Shapes with Child 36

This child successfully attempts to match geo-solids using triangular prism-shaped blocks. Focus on the Child videos are taken from one-on-one interviews with individual children. The interviews are designed to elicit evidence of children’s mathematical thinking.…

  • Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Child 36, English Language Learner
one to one correspondence
Series: Focus on the Child December 10, 2018

One-to-One Correspondence with Child 15

A child counts an organized collection of bears. Children often sort collections into groups by color. Here, a preschooler assumes he has equal groups until he counts them.

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Child 15
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