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Preschool Math

bingo game match em all game
Series: Focus on Play

The Match ‘Em All Game

September 26, 2018

This bingo-like game allows children to think about numbers in different ways. It focuses children on the attribute of quantity of small sets and helps them build a more robust number sense.

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Unifix Cubes, Subitizing, Games, Dice
simple tossing game with math
Series: Focus on Play September 25, 2018

The Hoop Game

This game played with a hula hoop and bean bags demonstrates all the math that can be explored with a simple tossing game. Each round gives children practice seeing and naming smaller parts of a…

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Subitizing, Games, download
Series: Ideas at Work September 11, 2018

Preschool Number Sense Routine Perfect for Transitions

Moving from one activity to another just got a lot more mathematical with this simple routine that builds early number sense with preschoolers.

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Subitizing, Dot cards
dot card transition activity
Series: Focus on the Lesson August 17, 2018

Dot Card Transition Activity

Transition time is a great time for mathematizing a daily routine. This dot card transition is a relatively simple routine that builds number sense in a concrete way, allowing them to subitize.

  • Topic: Number Sense
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Subitizing, Dot cards
July 15, 2018

Professional Development Module: Sets

Sets are basic to children’s thinking and learning. They are also basic to our number system. One of the most important jobs of each number is to describe “how many” there are in a set…

  • Topic: Sets
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Book Ideas March 22, 2018

3 "Mathical" Counting Books with Winning Appeal

The Mathical Book Prize is an annual award organized by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). With an aim to "inspire a love of mathematics in the everyday world in children of all ages," the winners…

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Baby Goes to Market, Atinuke, Count the Monkeys, Mac Barnett, 8: An Animal Alphabet, Elisha Cooper
mouse count math children games and counting 636x363
Series: Ideas at Work February 14, 2018

Control Your Math Fate, Estimate!

Ellen Stoll Walsh's book Mouse Count can be used in the classroom to cover such broad-ranging topics as data analysis, number sense, and number and operations. Key concepts such as estimation can be explored and…

  • Topic: Data Analysis
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
  • Tags Animals, Estimation, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Mouse Count
Series: Ideas at Work January 29, 2018

Exploring the Three-Reads Math Protocol for Word Problems

Teachers in four schools recently experimented with a "problem stem" protocol for helping their children understand the math going on in the word problems they face in class. This was part of our Big Shoulders…

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Series: Book Ideas January 10, 2018

3 Children’s Books that Build an Understanding of Equivalency

Long before young children are writing equations with the equal sign, they are exploring how amounts that look different can actually be equivalent.

  • Topic: Number Sense, Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
  • Tags Books, Equivalence, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Eve Merriam, April Pulley Sayre, Balancing Act, Twelve Ways to Get to Eleven, One is a Snail Ten is a Crab
holiday activities for kids, childrens books about food
Series: Book Ideas October 24, 2017

5 Children’s Books About Food for the Holiday Season

The holiday season usually brings with it any number of family dinners and communal feasts. For young children, this is a great time to engage in math.

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Seasonal, Food, Holiday, Books, Tana Hoban, Alison Jackson, Gary Soto, Cathryn Falwell, Dr. Seuss, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, Too Many Tamales, So Many Circles So Many Squares, Feast for 10, Ten Apples Up On Top
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