Series: Ideas at Work
Real-World Math Activities for Kids in the Early Years
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.
Series: Ideas at Work
6 Tips When Discussing Math with the English Language Learner
August 8, 2014
Math, with its own set of unique vocabulary, can sometimes be a difficult subject for non-native speakers of English.
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags English Language Learner, Gesture
Series: Ideas at Work July 16, 2014
8 Tips for Teaching Math Strategies and Concepts
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…
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Series: Ideas at Work June 26, 2014
Innovations Project Adds School Resources for Special Education
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…
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Ideas at Work April 21, 2014
Teacher Tom Delves into a Math Activity for Preschoolers
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.
- Topic: Counting, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Ideas at Work April 9, 2014
Exploring “Math Talks” with Math Problems for 2nd Grade and Beyond
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,
- Topic: Number Sense, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Number Talks
Series: Ideas at Work March 2, 2013
Down with Naked Numbers
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…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Subitizing, Games
Series: Ideas at Work March 1, 2013
Analyzing Data with Surveys
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.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Ideas at Work February 28, 2013
Working “Through” Math with English Language Learners
It is tough learning two new languages at once. In the case of ELLs, the two “languages” are often English and math.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner
Series: Ideas at Work February 27, 2013
Numbers and Fun with Anno’s Counting Book
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…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Anno’s Counting Book, Seasonal, Nature, Mitsumasa Anno
Series: Book Ideas, Ideas at Work February 18, 2013
Exploring Geometry with The Secret Birthday Message
Sharon Hogan and her preschool class at Peterson School had all kinds of fun with the way Eric Carle’s The Secret Birthday Message plays with the two main faces of geometry—shapes and spatial sense.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Eric Carle, The Secret Birthday Message, English Language Learner, Mapping, Books
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