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Series: Focus on Play
Quantity Cards for Subitizing
November 17, 2021
Quantity is a particular amount of something, expressed as a number. Quantity cards for young children can have pictures of small sets such as dots, finger patterns, or 5- or 10- frames. The ones we have available on our site use a variety of pictures or "suits," since matching quantities such as fingers and dots can help develop ideas about equivalence.
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Subitizing, Play, Games, Family Math, En Español
Series: Focus on Play December 29, 2020
New Use of Quantity Cards for Remote Preschool Math Games
Whether teaching in-person with social distancing or online, the number one question we hear from teachers is how to adapt preschool math games for remote learning. Here are some game ideas that work equally well…
- Topic: Counting, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Subitizing, Play, Games, Family Math
Series: Ideas at Work July 13, 2020
Taking Math Out for a Spin: Outside Activities for Kids That Have Math
Warm weather and more daylight hours mean now is a great time to take advantage of outdoor spaces. There are so many ways to incorporate math into your child’s outside activity.
- Topic: Measurement, Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Play, Family Math
Series: Focus on Play June 5, 2020
How to Adapt Math Card Games to Children’s Skill Level
Card games provide meaningful practice of the basic number combinations. These common card games that children learn in school or at home can be revisited many times and can be adapted to children’s own math…
- Topic: Counting, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Subitizing, Play, Games, Family Math, En Español, download
Series: Ideas at Work June 8, 2019
Build Tangram Shapes with Do-It-Yourself Puzzles
A tangram puzzle consists of seven pieces — five triangles and two quadrilaterals made from one square. Tangrams originated in China hundreds of years ago. They traveled to Europe in the 1800’s, where they gained…
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
- Tags Play, Family Math, Grandfather Tang's Story, Ann Tompert
Series: Focus on Play April 29, 2019
A New Focus for Familiar Card Games
Here you can download cards and simple-to-learn game ideas to help young children build their understanding of early math concepts such as cardinality, composing and comparing numbers, and allowing them to subitize.
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Subitizing, Play, Games, Equivalence, Dot cards, Family Math, Cardinality, En Español, download
Series: Focus on Play November 14, 2016
Comparing Capacity at the Sand Table
What kind of "big" is it? Children explore the differences between tall and wide as they explore which bucket holds the most sand.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Play, Capacity
Series: Focus on the Lesson August 16, 2016
Mouse Collections
Preschool storytime is a great time to teach mathematics! In this video, two teachers use Ellen Stoll Walsh's "Mouse Count" to illustrate the concept of "less and more."
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Play, Books, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Mouse Count
Series: Focus on the Lesson February 1, 2016
Movement Counts
Students roll a die and mimic animal movements to connect counting words, visual number arrangements, and actions.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Play, Books
Series: About the Collaborative July 15, 2015
Early Math Educators Convene for Summer Institute
Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative hosted its first Summer Institute, Meaning-Making in Early Math Education (MEME), July 7-10, 2015. Over 100 participants took part in rigorous, hands-on sessions that explored the foundational math concepts that…
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Play, Blocks
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