Books
Children in a math-rich early childhood environment will have many experiences working with spatial relationships, including having books to read that invite spatial reasoning. Early experiences talking about, organizing, moving through, drawing, and modeling space provide a critical conceptual base for the mathematical study that will turn them into engineers, architects, scientists, taxi cab drivers and other adults who competently make their way from here to there. When deciding on math picture books, choosing those that encourage children to develop spatial thinking can become a healthy exploration.
© Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative. Reprinted from Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (2014), Pearson Education.
4 Children’s Books to Shape Up Geometry Skills
From recognizing octagonal stop signs to remembering where the cookies are stored, children encounter geometry early and often. There are plenty of children’s books that kids love to further pique their interest. We’ve listed a few of our favorites here.
