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.
June 11, 2015
A kindergarten student determines how many bears are in and out of their cave.
A child creates groups out of a collection of rocks.
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.
A student determines how many blocks there are.
This pre-k English Language Learner uses gesture to articulate math ideas while putting together a shape puzzle.
A child determines a given quantity of blocks and then finds the new amount as blocks are added to the set.
A child uses cubes to aid in addition and subtraction.
A child counts on to find the total number of cubes as the set increases.
This second grader extends a shape pattern to ordinal numbers.