Getting started with solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems begins by asking teachers to rethink their existing ideas of teaching the operations and providing opportunities for teachers to see that
Here is a brief account of how an understanding of the operations develops in the preschool years. Young children’s understanding of the operations develops out of their understanding of counting.
As a preservice teacher educator working with students who are just beginning their preschool teaching careers, I have three main goals: (1) to help students draw on their own experiences
This handout explores building on how young children count collections of objects to support them to reason about solving problems that involve operations.
We often think of mathematical development and socio-emotional development as two ships passing in the night, existing in the same ocean but not interacting. But, fair-sharing—the sharing of toys or
A vignette about teachers Makayla and Jaden draw on their knowledge of “development” to consider if children’s understanding of operations has an “order” to it.
