ACTIVITY FOR TEACHER EDUCATORS Reflections provide participants an opportunity to think through big ideas, content, and their practice. When doing work on counting collections in professional…
This piece discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks, and offers brief descriptions of picture books. It describes how to use the Math Picture Book Analysis Guide with pre-service
This resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about measurement. Notions of big and little and biggest and littlest permeate children’s play and preschool learning. However, deciding which
This activity explores the uses of calendar activities with preschoolers. It will help teachers examine the appropriateness of calendar activities in meeting developmental and learning goals, as well as addressing
This resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about patterns and algebraic thinking. The activities are similar to those your participants can use in teaching children, but are
One of our main goals is to help participants understand the importance of assessing children’s thinking. The activity described here engages participants in an analysis of their own thinking as they
One of our main goals is to help participants understand the importance of assessing children’s thinking. This activity engages participants in bug detection and analysis; that is, figuring out the thinking
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s development in operations as children solve problems that arise through play and interactions throughout the day.
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s early abilities in fair-sharing and to explore their own beliefs and attitudes about supporting children’s mathematical and socio-emotional development.
The following activity helps participants notice and support children’s sense-making about the actions involved in the operations: joining, separating, comparing and even grouping (multiplication and division).
