Foundational Math Topics
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Series: About Early Math
A collections of videos, articles, and links, all free teacher resources for early educators.
Series: About Early Math
Early Childhood Teachers Look Back on a Year Like No Other
December 27, 2020
The Collaborative interviewed three Chicago-area early childhood teachers who spoke honestly about the challenges and rewards of teaching during the pandemic.
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: 0-3, Kindergarten, Pre-K
Series: About Early Math July 19, 2016
Importance of Early Math Often Overlooked
This article, which includes powerful words by our own Dr. Jie-Qi Chen, describes the importance of early math, how it is often shortchanged in classrooms, and explains techniques that are becoming increasingly common for bringing out the math in early education classrooms.
Series: About Early Math March 21, 2016
Five 3s or Three 5s, the Common Core Questions Continue
This article from Scientific American dissects one of many homework assignments that have outraged parents recently, often with blame falling to the Common Core State Standards.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
Series: About Early Math January 6, 2016
Spatial Reasoning Skills Predict Later STEM Success
Children with strong spatial reasoning skills are more likely to succeed in STEM fields later on in life.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Books, Mapping, Nature, Technology
Series: About Early Math December 21, 2015
U.S. Achievement Gap Begins in the Early Years
Jane Waldfogel, one of the authors of Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective, discusses the problems that many children face growing up in the United States. Remarkably and troublingly,…
Series: About Early Math December 7, 2015
Math in School Shaped by Politics
The over-politicization of math education is a major cause for United States students' ongoing struggles with math in school.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags CCSS, Common Core
Series: About Early Math November 12, 2015
Collaborative Director Reflects on Teaching Math to Preschoolers
Collaborative director Jennifer McCray reflects on the field of early math education.
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
Series: About Early Math September 25, 2015
Secondary Math Influences Future Elementary School Teachers
Dr. Linda Griffin, a former secondary math teacher who now works as a pre-service teacher educator, discusses some of her observations about the United States' consistently lukewarm feelings towards math. She argues that secondary math can have an enormous effect on students who are planning to go on to teach elementary school later on.
- Tags Math Anxiety
Series: About Early Math August 24, 2015
High Score: Using Math Video Games in the Classroom
Mathematician Keith Devlin reflects on the use of video games in the classroom in his review of Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Kindergarten, Pre-K
- Tags Technology