Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
This is a Math Thinking Story about a five-year-old preschool girl, who was interviewed towards the end of the school year in May.…
Multiplication and division are often considered to be too mathematically complex for young children. However, we see that young…
This piece explores the intuitive strategies that young children use to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division…
This story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about operations…
An accessible overview of the mathematics of operations. Patterning, decomposition, place value, and equivalence are all key ideas…
Here is a brief account of how an understanding of the operations develops in the preschool years.…
Children have intuitive ideas about operating on number from a very early age. This piece helps us begin to think about the ways in…
This is the story of two teachers who learn how to blend their insistence on high quality support for early math learning with an…
A vignette about Joan and Tessa exploring how teachers learn to help their children explore math, not only through play, but also…
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…
Additional readings about the development of and mathematics of counting. Download the articles directly from this page.
Here are several published papers that cover relevant issues to the teaching and learning of mathematics in early childhood.
This activity supports facilitating Common Core Mathematical Practices in the classroom. It provides participants with an opportunity to…
In this activity prospective or practicing teachers attempt to learn to count in a foreign language (Farsi). The experience is designed…
More video resources related to the development of counting and how teachers can engage young children in counting
An accessible introduction to mathematical ideas basic to counting. Counting depends on mathematical ideas, including the…
This account describes how number develops in the preschool range, from about 3-5 years, and provides a detailed overview of the various…