Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
A vignette about teachers Makayla and Jaden draw on their knowledge of "development" to consider if children's understanding of…
Here is a brief account of how an understanding of the operations develops in the preschool years.…
An accessible overview of the mathematics of operations. Patterning, decomposition, place value, and equivalence are all key ideas…
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 piece explores the intuitive strategies that young children use to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division…
Multiplication and division are often considered to be too mathematically complex for young children. However, we see that young…
This story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about operations…
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…
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…