Early Math Resources for Teacher Educators
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and counting and provides tips for…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and geometry and spatial relations and…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and patterns and provides tips for…
This resource explores connections among executive functioning (EF) and mathematical operations and…
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…
Additional readings about supporting young children to develop spatial relations understanding. Download the articles directly from…
Additional readings about the supporting the development of measurement. Download the articles directly from this page.
This brief video shows a child’s understanding of spatial concepts such as in front of and behind. The video shows …
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the…
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the shape…
This overview is designed to engage practicing teachers for 4-6 hours. The goals are (1) to support them in seeing their strengths as…
These materials are designed to support professional developers to learn more about supporting preschool teachers in mathematics and for…
A short session with preschool teachers can spark their interest in how upcoming professional development work can support them in…
Over a few days, preschool teachers can learn about the development of children’s counting, see how that fits with the their curricula,…
These guidelines can provide six or more hours on early mathematics (focus on shapes and spatial relations) in a three-unit semester…
A short session around spatial relations can support moving beyond thinking about spatial relations as identifying the shapes, expanding…
Children often describe characteristics of shapes using their informal out-of-school language. We want to encourage participants to…
Often in professional development settings it is productive to anchor the content of the day around one activity designed for children…
These guidelines can provide 6+ hours on early mathematics, specifically operations, in a 3-unit semester preschool curriculum course.…
These guidelines can provide three or more hours on extending counting to operations. It builds on participants’ knowledge of …
These tasks are designed to help you assess a child’s understanding of data. The protocol begins with sorting and…
The initial 2-hour session focuses on supporting participants to notice patterns in their environment and consider what…
This 2-3 hour session focuses on engaging participants with non-standard and standard measurement: what the different kinds…
The following activities can be enacted in one class session or broken into two shorter sessions. Participants should have a…
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the measurement assessment protocol.
This page consists of video clips that are designed to illustrate assessing students using the data assessment protocol.
These tasks are designed to help you use the clinical interview to assess an individual child’s understanding of…
A story in which Teachers Emily and Alondra learn from Zobeir about the importance of vocabulary for both teachers and children, and how…