Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and mathematical operations and…
Getting started with solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems begins by asking teachers to rethink their…
A useful reference of geometric terms and their definitions.
Additional readings about supporting young children to develop spatial relations understanding. Download the articles directly from…
Additional readings about the supporting the development of measurement. Download the articles directly from this page.
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the shape…
This brief video shows a child’s understanding of spatial concepts such as in front of and behind. The video shows …
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the…
Children often describe characteristics of shapes using their informal out-of-school language. We want to encourage participants to…
These guidelines can provide three or more hours on extending counting to operations. It builds on participants’ knowledge of …
These materials are designed to support professional developers to learn more about supporting preschool teachers in mathematics and for…
The initial 2-hour session focuses on supporting participants to notice patterns in their environment and consider what…
Often in professional development settings it is productive to anchor the content of the day around one activity designed for children…
These guidelines can provide six or more hours on early mathematics (focus on shapes and spatial relations) in a three-unit semester…
A short session with preschool teachers can spark their interest in how upcoming professional development work can support them in…
This 2-3 hour session focuses on engaging participants with non-standard and standard measurement: what the different kinds…
These guidelines can provide 6+ hours on early mathematics, specifically operations, in a 3-unit semester preschool curriculum course.…
This overview is designed to engage practicing teachers for 4-6 hours. The goals are (1) to support them in seeing their strengths as…
These tasks are designed to help you assess a child’s understanding of data. The protocol begins with sorting and…
Over a few days, preschool teachers can learn about the development of children’s counting, see how that fits with the their curricula,…
The following activities can be enacted in one class session or broken into two shorter sessions. Participants should have a…
A short session around spatial relations can support moving beyond thinking about spatial relations as identifying the shapes, expanding…
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the measurement assessment protocol.
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the data assessment protocol.
More video resources related to how teachers can engage young children in measurement and data
A story in which Teachers Emily and Alondra learn from Zobeir about the importance of vocabulary for both teachers and children, and how…
These tasks are designed to help you use the clinical interview to assess an individual child’s understanding of…
This activity supports teachers to consider how to use observational data to promote engagement and learning in mathematics in ways that…
This activity explores the uses of calendar activities with preschoolers. It will help teachers examine the appropriateness…