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
Three Bears Sort in a Dual Language Classroom
February 15, 2013
Wanda Ocasio of Inter-American School saw the opportunity to use a Three Bears sorting lesson to investigate her preschoolers’ understanding of sorting, as well as explore this Big Idea in the context of a multilingual environment.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Series: Ideas at Work February 15, 2013
A Colorful Book to Brighten the Dog-Gone Day
Daniela Giralt at Gunsaulus Elementary, a 2010-11 Early Math participant, used the book Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd to help her preschoolers explore the Big Ideas of counting. First in the whole group, children…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Dog's Colorful Day, Emma Dodd
Series: Ideas at Work February 14, 2013
Algebraic Thinking with Shoes
Cindy Collado and her preschool class at Stock School were involved in a shoe project that incorporated many math concepts through a variety of activities over the course of two months. The class started by…
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Graphing, Shoes
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