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 early math education is important and become ready to move forward in a positive way.
A vignette about Joan and Tessa exploring how teachers learn to help their children explore math, not only through play, but also intentional teaching.
Resources that teacher educators can use to support teachers to develop classroom practice that engages young children in counting.
This guide discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks and offers brief descriptions of storybooks that children enjoy and that can be used to teach counting.
Counting Collections is a set of activities that provides support for connecting the content of counting, children’s thinking in counting, and pedagogy in classroom practice.
Materials explaining and illustrating the importance of the formative assessment of children’s counting.
A brief account of formative assessment approaches that help you learn what young children know about counting and number.
Below are a selection of tasks you can use to determine what children know about counting. The prompts are just suggestions; consider how follow up questions requiring explanation inform your understanding of the child.
This activity for teacher educators will help practicing and prospective teachers look carefully at the processes of interviewing and interpretation. Each of the following videos includes a voice-over commentary of a teacher conducting a clinical interview with a four-year-old girl.
Videos of children, activities for prospective and practicing teachers, and readings that portray the development of an understanding of counting words and counting things (cardinal number, or how many).