Teachers and adults can try out and discuss math activities for kids in the classroom and at home. The Ideas at Work series aims to highlight real-world examples of adults finding the math in activities, games, and everyday life.
September 4, 2014
A Chicago-area library used the Collaborative's Foundational Math Concepts to create math fun, games, and activities.
Math, with its own set of unique vocabulary, can sometimes be a difficult subject for non-native speakers of English.
In this blog post, a mother details her exploration in teaching math strategies to her children. Teaching math strategies such as these at an early age sets up children for a successful time in preschool…
Classrooms with special education concerns pose their own specific challenges. Luckily teachers have strategies to combat these difficulties. Teachers in our Innovations project have been implementing our ideas in their curriculum, and their results have…
This counting activity for young children is low stress and explores all the small things that really matter when trying out a new math activity for preschoolers.
The Math Talk instructional strategy emphasizes spoken communication around a series of carefully crafted math problems. “They challenge my students to be more specific in their reflections,
All kinds of confusion can result when children are asked to rattle off the numbers from 1 to 10 or 20 or higher without actually counting something. In our learning labs and activities we are…
Heather Duncan did a particularly striking job of explaining how she and her kindergartners at South Shore Elementary have made collecting data from surveys and discussing them a regular part of their classroom life.
It is tough learning two new languages at once. In the case of ELLs, the two “languages” are often English and math.
After reading Anno’s Counting Book, Nancy Beza at Waters Elementary encouraged her preschoolers to make a list of objects that could be found in a winter scene—snowflakes, trees, etc. Each student created an object from…