This paper elucidates the Common Core’s vision of sound Mathematical Practices for young children, including reasoning abstractly and making sense of problems.  

Why early childhood education requires attention to mathematics learning in addition to work on literacy, science, and socio-emotional development. 

This is an activity for teacher educators to use with the "Engaging Mathematics" vignette.

This activity accompanies the “But I’m Not Good at Math!” vignette to address beliefs and attitudes about teachers' own mathematical skills and their effects on classroom teaching. 

This activity accompanies the "Play-Based? Math?" vignette to address beliefs and attitudes about mathematics teaching and learning in the early childhood classroom. This activity will help teachers examine their role in mathematics instruction within a play-based environment or philosophy.

This is the story of two teachers who learn how to blend their insistence on high quality support for early math learning with an approach that uses children’s natural engagement in and enthusiasm for mathematics, to guide lesson planning and classroom interactions.

This is a story of participants who think that they are not good at math and are not enthusiastic about teaching it.  They learn that early math education is important and become ready to move forward in a positive way.