Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
We describe some ways you might engage participants in these problem types to help them see the range of problems, how…
This piece discusses general principles of reading and analyzing storybooks, and offers brief descriptions of picture books. It…
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.
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 resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about measurement. Notions of big and little…
This activity engages participants in both attending to the details of children’s ideas and working on how to support children to think…
The following activity helps participants notice and support children’s sense-making about the actions involved in the operations:…
One of our main goals is to help participants understand the importance of assessing children’s thinking. The activity described…
One of our main goals is to help participants understand the importance of assessing children’s thinking. This activity engages…
This resource provides an overview of how teacher educators can engage participants in Describe, Draw, Describe (DDD). The…
This resource provides additional activities to support participants to engage more deeply with the activity of Counting Collections.
This activity explores the uses of calendar activities with preschoolers. It will help teachers examine the appropriateness…
This resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about patterns and algebraic thinking. The activities are similar to…
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore the attributes of 2-D geometric figures (similar to how one would…
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore their comfort level and fears around teaching geometry and spatial…
This resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about shape. The basic idea is to help your participants gain some…
This activity was developed for our graduate students (prospective early childhood teachers). It helps adults to understand how…
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s development in operations as children solve problems…
This activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s early abilities in fair-sharing and to explore their…
This activity supports facilitating Common Core Mathematical Practices in the classroom. It provides participants with an opportunity to…