Preschool 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 Subitizing, Play, Games, Equivalence, Dot cards, Family Math, Cardinality, En Español, download
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
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
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
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 Estimation, Unifix Cubes, Subitizing, Gesture, Dot cards
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 Animals, Eric Carle, Bill Martin Jr., Trudy Harris, Audrey Wood, Pattern Bugs, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?, I Went Walking, The Napping House, Sue Williams
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 English Language Learner, Child 36
Series: Ideas at Work November 7, 2018
Counting on Good Food for the Holidays
Traditions around food and feasts provide rich opportunities to connect math at school with children’s experiences at home. From Diwali to Thanksgiving, fall is a season of special meals with loved ones.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Seasonal, Holiday, Cathryn Falwell, Family Math, Feast for 10
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