Series: Focus on the Child
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. They are not teaching episodes or formal assessments.
Series: Focus on the Child
Using Shape Blocks for Visual and Spatial Memory with Child 35
March 19, 2015
A preschool student puts together shape blocks to make larger, more complicated shapes from memory. In doing so, she makes connections between the various configurations she is constructing.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 35
Series: Focus on the Child February 12, 2015
One-to-One Correspondence with Child 6
A student determines how many blocks there are.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Child 6
Series: Focus on the Child November 3, 2014
Composing Shapes through Gesture with Child 10
This pre-k English Language Learner uses gesture to articulate math ideas while putting together a shape puzzle.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Gesture, Correction, Child 10, Grit
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Child 7
Series: Focus on the Child June 2, 2014
Counting Principles in Action with Child 18
A child determines a given quantity of blocks and then finds the new amount as blocks are added to the set.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Child 18
Series: Focus on the Child June 2, 2014
Plus 1, Minus 1 with Child 28
A child uses cubes to aid in addition and subtraction.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Unifix Cubes, Child 28
Series: Focus on the Child June 2, 2014
Cardinality with Child 7
A child counts on to find the total number of cubes as the set increases.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Child 7
Series: Focus on the Child April 11, 2014
Pattern with Child 14
This second grader extends a shape pattern to ordinal numbers.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Problem Solving, Correction, Child 14
Series: Focus on the Child April 10, 2014
Change Unknown Problem 1 with Child 5
This second grader uses derived facts to solve mentally. Just one example of mental math strategies used by elementary students.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Child 5
Series: Focus on the Child April 7, 2014
Place Value: Meaning of the Digits with Child 14
This second grader has uncertainty about the meaning of the digits. He is working to construct the understanding that place determines the value of a number.
- Topic: Number Sense, Counting
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Child 14, Place Value
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