The following activities can be enacted in one class session or broken into two shorter sessions. Participants should have a good grasp of number development in children in order to benefit optimally from this session.

This 2-3 hour session focuses on engaging participants with non-standard and standard measurement: what the different kinds of measurement mean, why engage preschoolers with both, and how a teacher might engage children productively with them.

This use case explores participants’ understanding of the wide variety of patterns encountered in the preschool classroom and draws out participants’ own understanding of more complicated patterns.

The initial 2-hour session focuses on supporting participants to notice patterns in their environment and consider what young children may notice. The second 2-hour session focuses on deepening understanding of what a pattern is, and what we want preschool children to understand about pattern.

Additional readings about the supporting the development of measurement.  Download the articles directly from this page.

These tasks are designed to help you assess a child’s understanding of data. The protocol begins with sorting and reading simple graphs and moves on to creating graphs.

This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the data assessment protocol.

This activity supports teachers to consider how to use observational data to promote engagement and learning in mathematics in ways that are authentic, purposeful and interesting for students.

This handout describes challenges children face as they learn to measure lengths using non-conventional units (in this example, connecting cubes), and those faced by interviewers in trying to determine what children understand about measurement.

A story of how teachers Angela and Patrick observe the children in their classroom and notice them using time and time tools throughout their day.