Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
Many of our DREME TE resources can be used to support students’ understanding of the ways in…
The story of a preschool teacher leveraging children's ideas to engage in geometry. It addresses anxiety teachers experience when…
Drawing attention to supporting the math learning of dual language learners (DLLs) provides an…
Imagine that you, a teacher, are preparing to read a book to a child or group of children and…
Dr. Herb Ginsburg draws on his expertise on the development of mathematical thinking to detail the importance of counting for young…
This piece discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks, and offers brief descriptions of picture books. It…
We describe some ways you might engage participants in these problem types to help them see the range of problems, how…
Imagine that you, as a teacher, are preparing to read a book to a child or group of children…
These guidelines can provide nine or more hours on early mathematics (with a focus on counting) in a three-unit semester preschool…
Counting Collections is a set of activities that provides support for connecting the content of counting, children’s thinking…
This activity accompanies the "Play-Based? Math?" vignette to address beliefs and attitudes about mathematics teaching and…
This activity accompanies the “But I’m Not Good at Math!” vignette to address beliefs and attitudes about teachers' own mathematical…
This is an activity for teacher educators to use with the "Engaging Mathematics" vignette.
This guide discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks and offers brief descriptions of storybooks that children…
This story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about counting …
This use case explores participants’ understanding of the wide variety of patterns encountered in the preschool classroom…
What do we mean by pattern? Can young children engage in algebraic thinking to understand patterns? How should we help…
More video resources related to the development of counting and how teachers can engage young children in counting
More video resources related to the development of spatial relations and how teachers can engage young children in spatial relations
Measurement is the process of accurately determining the extent, amount, or quantitative value…
In the activity, children are asked to view a picture (simple drawing, storybook page, complex geometrical shape, etc.), and describe…
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…
This handout describes challenges children face as they learn to measure lengths using non-conventional…
A thinking story about one child’s counting from one to 99 (she says she has to ask her mother about what comes after that). A…
Addition can grow directly out of children's experience with counting objects. Ben illustrates how a young child adds.
The idea of how many is deep, abstract, and cognitively demanding, involving learning number words and figuring out of the …
Can young children do algebra? This resource illustrates the links between algebraic thinking and patterns.
There are several ways in which you can use Thinking Stories about children's mathematical thinking and/or corresponding…