This resource explores three projects that can help your participants understand and build home-school connections into their mathematics teaching practice. Engaging in these projects might also help your participants uncover potential biases and incorrect assumptions they might have about children's ability to learn math, as well as their families' capacity to support them.

Imagine that you, as a teacher, are preparing to read a book to a child or group of children and you want to use the story as an opportunity to develop understanding of patterns. This document describes what you might do.

Imagine that you, a teacher, are preparing to read a book to a child or group of children and you want to use the story as an opportunity to develop their understanding of math. This document contains some general tips for doing this.

This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the shape assessment protocol. Please visit the Space Assessment Protocol for more details.

This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the measurement assessment protocol. Please visit the Counting and Enumeration Assessment Protocol for more details.

This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the shape assessment protocol. Please visit the Shape Assessment Protocol for more details.

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.

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 resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and mathematical operations and provides tips for early childhood educators to support EF while engaging in operations.

This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and patterns and provides tips for early childhood educators to support EF while engaging in patterns.