Books
Children in a math-rich early childhood classroom will have many experiences working with sets, including having preschool and kindergarten books to read that explore sets and sorting, as well as matching and sorting items that are described in those books. They will need many opportunities to sort and categorize features of the classroom and to join in conversations about meaningful or useful ways to break a collection into sets. These experiences help them construct the ideas that are the foundation upon which competent and flexible counting can be built.
Copyright: Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative. Reprinted from Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (2014), Pearson Education.
5 Kids’ Books that Involve Sets and Sorting
Children look for ways to organize and make sense of their world through play at school and home, as well as at clean-up time. Sorting items into groups by specific attributes gives children the opportunity to define sets according to a rule of what does and does not belong together.
