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OverviewThis resource explores three projects that can help your participants understand and build home-…
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Spatial RelationsThese tasks are designed to help you assess children’s concepts of shape. The protocol begins…
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Patterns/AlgebraThis story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about patterns…
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OverviewThis piece discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks, and offers brief descriptions of picture books. It…
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OperationsMore video resources related to the development of operations and how teachers can engage young children in operations
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CountingA brief overview of the development of counting in young children. Counting is more complex than usually assumed and learning it can be…
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Spatial RelationsThese tasks are designed to help you assess a child’s understanding of spatial topics. The…
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CountingCounting Collections is a set of activities that provides support for connecting the content of counting, children’s thinking…
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Patterns/AlgebraThis page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the pattern and algebra assessment protocol.…
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OverviewImagine that you, a teacher, are preparing to read a book to a child or group of children and…
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OperationsMore video resources related to the development of operations and how teachers can engage young children in operations.
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CountingThis page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the…
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Patterns/AlgebraThere are all types of patterns. This handout describes a variety of these patterns and how to assess children’s increasingly…
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Measurement/DataHow do we assess what children know about collecting data and using it to answer questions and solve problems? This handout…
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OverviewThis article asserts that flexible assessment plays a central role in successful education. Flexible assessment includes careful…
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CountingBelow are a selection of tasks you can use to determine what children know about counting. The prompts are just suggestions; consider…
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Patterns/AlgebraA brief overview of the development of patterns and algebraic thinking in young children. Children are born with the ability to detect…
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Measurement/DataChildren compare and measure all the time in the classroom. How can we assess their knowledge in this important area of…
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CountingA brief account of formative assessment approaches that help you learn what young children know about counting and number.
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OverviewTo teach well, you need to understand the individual child’s math knowledge. This document provides guidelines for conducting…
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Patterns/AlgebraA brief account of formative assessment approaches that can help you identify what young children know about patterns…
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OperationsConsidering how a young child would intuitively approach word problems helps us to explore the range of problem types within…
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CountingThis guide discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks and offers brief descriptions of storybooks that children…
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Measurement/DataThis resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about measurement. Notions of big and little…
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OperationsThis activity engages participants in both attending to the details of children’s ideas and working on how to support children to think…
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OperationsThis handout explores building on how young children count collections of objects to support them to reason about solving problems that…
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Measurement/DataWhat do children need to know in order to use data? This handout describes the foundational concepts of data, the importance of…
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CountingThese guidelines can provide nine or more hours on early mathematics (with a focus on counting) in a three-unit semester preschool…
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OverviewWhy early childhood education requires attention to mathematics learning in addition to work on literacy, science, and socio-emotional…
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OverviewVideo is a powerful tool for engaging participants in understanding children's mathematical thinking. This example of using video in a…
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