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CountingOver a few days, preschool teachers can learn about the development of children’s counting, see how that fits with the their curricula,…
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Spatial RelationsThese guidelines can provide six or more hours on early mathematics (focus on shapes and spatial relations) in a three-unit semester…
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Spatial RelationsA short session around spatial relations can support moving beyond thinking about spatial relations as identifying the shapes, expanding…
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Spatial RelationsChildren often describe characteristics of shapes using their informal out-of-school language. We want to encourage participants to…
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Spatial RelationsOften in professional development settings it is productive to anchor the content of the day around one activity designed for children…
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OperationsThese guidelines can provide 6+ hours on early mathematics, specifically operations, in a 3-unit semester preschool curriculum course.…
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OperationsThese guidelines can provide three or more hours on extending counting to operations. It builds on participants’ knowledge of …
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Measurement/DataThese tasks are designed to help you assess a child’s understanding of data. The protocol begins with sorting and…
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Patterns/AlgebraThe initial 2-hour session focuses on supporting participants to notice patterns in their environment and consider what…
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Measurement/DataThis 2-3 hour session focuses on engaging participants with non-standard and standard measurement: what the different kinds…
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Measurement/DataThe following activities can be enacted in one class session or broken into two shorter sessions. Participants should have a…
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Measurement/DataThese tasks are designed to help you use the clinical interview to assess an individual child’s understanding of…
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Measurement/DataA story in which Teachers Emily and Alondra learn from Zobeir about the importance of vocabulary for both teachers and children, and how…
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Measurement/DataThis activity supports teachers to consider how to use observational data to promote engagement and learning in mathematics in ways that…
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Spatial RelationsThis fictionalized but very real story of actual teacher experiences tells the story of a team-teaching effort to incorporate meaningful…
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Patterns/AlgebraEver wonder what a pattern unit is and why it is important? Here’s your chance to find out!
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Patterns/AlgebraThe environment constantly exposes young children to regularities of various types: in music, shirts, dance, shape, and spatial…
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Patterns/AlgebraThis is the story of how Teachers Steph and Maria found out what children notice about patterns and why that matters.
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Patterns/AlgebraPatterns have long been a part of preschool curricula. But, what is a pattern? How do we go beyond simple ABAB patterns? And…
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Measurement/DataWe often think of graphs and charts when we think of data. But children collect data all the time without them. This…
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Measurement/DataMeasurement in early childhood involves important mathematical concepts that can be supported in the preschool classroom through…
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Measurement/DataThis story is another approach to explaining the mathematics of measurement. It is written not for children, but for prospective and…
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Measurement/DataYou’ve been counting regularly in your classroom and you’ve decided to start including activities that encourage children to delve…
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Patterns/AlgebraWe describe a way to engage participants in learning about patterns and algebraic thinking in Teaching Algebraic Thinking to Young…
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Spatial RelationsHere is a detailed description of one round of the Shape Touch activity described in …
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Spatial RelationsThis article shows how different aspects of shape and space are fundamental to children’s lives. Educators can use many different…
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Spatial RelationsAn accessible overview of the mathematics of geometry and spatial relations. This article contextualizes this mathematics in children’s…
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Spatial RelationsThis story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about shapes and…
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OperationsA vignette about teachers Makayla and Jaden draw on their knowledge of "development" to consider if children's understanding of…
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OperationsMathematics, specifically number and operations, is at the heart of the intensely social interactions of fair-sharing. In attempts to…
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