The Early Math Collaborative provides education teacher training and research.
May 11, 2016
The sessions included an overview of foundational math concepts as well as hands-on early math games and activities for the classroom.
The Early Math Collaborative went to the White House to take part in the conversation about how to improve early STEM learning in the United States.
For three years the Collaborative has been partnering with Chicago Public Schools and Depaul University as a network of support to teachers.
For years the Collaborative has been expanding their efforts. In 2015 one such effort took the team to Hawaii to explore such concepts as sets and operations.
On November 18th-21st, 2015 instructors Dr. Hynes-Berry and Dr. Chen attended the annual national conference, presenting on the precursor concepts of math for babies and infants three-years-old and younger.
The Collaborative received a four-year $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, funding a new project that aims to improve early mathematics learning in Head Start classrooms across Chicago. This new program intends to…
Learning labs provide a time for teachers from different schools to come together and think in-depth about math. Tuesday, June 23, 2015 marked the date of the last learning lab for the Innovations program (i3),…
Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative hosted its first Summer Institute, Meaning-Making in Early Math Education (MEME), July 7-10, 2015. Over 100 participants took part in rigorous, hands-on sessions that explored the foundational math concepts that…
Reading a "touch-and-feel" book or singing an action song with a baby or toddler is setting the groundwork for mathematical thinking and future school success. That's the point of Math All Around Me (MAAM), a joint…
At the 2015 NCTM Research Conference, Mary Hynes-Berry and Rebeca Itzkowich described the importance of relating math to real-life problems, and Jeanine Brownell, Bilge Cerezci, and Erin Reid explained the Collaborative’s HIS-EM teacher assessment tool.