These tasks are designed to help you assess children’s concepts of addition and subtraction. The protocol begins with concrete addition and subtraction and moves on to operations with symbols.
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the addition and subtraction assessment protocol. Please visit the Addition and Subtraction Assessment Protocol for more details.
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and mathematical operations and provides tips for early childhood educators to support EF while engaging in operations.
We describe some ways you might engage participants in these problem types to help them see the range of problems, how they might be easier or more difficult for young
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
This video of four-year-old Ethan illustrates how young children engage in mathematics in real-life situations as he distributes rocks “fairly” using one-to-one correspondence.
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. Here we explore her understanding of addition
