Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
What do children need to know in order to use data? This handout describes the foundational concepts of data, the importance of…
This handout explores building on how young children count collections of objects to support them to reason about solving problems that…
Supporting Dual Language learners (DLLs) in our classroom is a valuable opportunity to focus on the importance of language, think beyond…
This resource provides a range of ideas that may be useful for teacher educators as they design their professional development sessions…
This article provides some background information about dual language learners (DLLs) in early childhood classrooms in the United States…
This paper elucidates the Common Core’s vision of sound Mathematical Practices for young children, including reasoning abstractly and…
These tasks are designed to help you assess an individual child’s understanding of patterns.…
A story of how Teachers Angela and Patrick learned from the children about calendar activities.
We know data involves math, but what does data’s math look like? This handout explores mathematics and representations…
How Teacher Julia and Teacher Isaac reengaged children in pattern activities, but lost the pattern unit! Getting back on track with…
These tasks are designed to help you assess children’s concepts of addition and subtraction. …
This article highlights the importance of both language and ideas for understanding and expressing spatial relations. Integrating…
Supporting children to notice and describe what they notice is a productive way for teachers to leverage the ways in which children…
Ever wonder how a pattern identification activity and a pattern extension activity differ? Explore these terms and more!
This article explains the basic math underlying the patterns that children encounter in their everyday lives and in preschool. . One key…
The following handout presents an accessible overview of the mathematics of measurement. It provides important information on the…
A story of how teachers Angela and Patrick observe the children in their classroom and notice them using time and time tools throughout…
Although children accurately perceive shape and space in their everyday environments, preschool children need to learn to …
This resource provides an overview of the connections between executive functioning (EF) and mathematics.
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and mathematical operations and…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and measurement and provides tips for…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and counting and provides tips for…
A brief account of formative assessment approaches that help you learn what young children know about operations.
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and geometry and spatial relations and…
Different approaches to learning what children know about shape and space. This article shows how participants can use observation,…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and patterns and provides tips for…
A useful reference of geometric terms and their definitions.
Getting started with solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems begins by asking teachers to rethink their…
This 2-3 hour session focuses on engaging participants with non-standard and standard measurement: what the different kinds…
A short session around spatial relations can support moving beyond thinking about spatial relations as identifying the shapes, expanding…