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 Number Paths with Child 9
March 4, 2013
A child counts forwards and backwards using a number line with hidden digits.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 9
Series: Focus on the Child March 4, 2013
Repeating Patterns with Child 31
A child attempts to duplicate a pattern using colored blocks.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 31
Series: Focus on the Child March 3, 2013
Repeating Patterns with Child 32
A child makes patterns using keys.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 32
Series: Focus on the Child March 3, 2013
Parts & Wholes with Child 27
A child computes how many are missing from a larger group.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, Correction, Child 27, Grit
Series: Focus on the Child March 2, 2013
Seriating Objects by Length and Capacity with Child 20
A student stacks cups to organize them by size.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Comparing, Correction, Child 20, Capacity
Series: Focus on the Child March 2, 2013
Composing Shapes with Child 12
A child composes a 6-pointed star shape using pattern blocks in multiple ways.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Problem Solving, Correction, Child 12
Series: Focus on the Child March 2, 2013
Growing Patterns with Child 32
A child attempts to find what comes next in a pattern.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 32
Series: Focus on the Child March 1, 2013
Growing Patterns with Child 33
A student takes a look at a pattern of blocks of increasing quantity.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 33
Series: Focus on the Child March 1, 2013
Describing and Drawing Shapes with Child 14
A kindergartner explains how to draw a rectangle. Later he finds a new shape to draw in the classroom.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Child 14
Series: Focus on the Child February 28, 2013
Growing Patterns with Child 30
A student identifies a pattern of increasing quantity.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Child 30
Do the math.
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