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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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Measurement/DataThis activity explores the uses of calendar activities with preschoolers. It will help teachers examine the appropriateness…
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Patterns/AlgebraChildren can learn surprisingly sophisticated patterns related to the counting words. In this handout, Anna illustrates her…
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Patterns/AlgebraChildren are interested in order at an early age. When order has regularity (that is, size increases by a specific amount each time),…
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Patterns/AlgebraThere are many daily-life activities in which children engage with mathematical patterns. This handout describes some of these…
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Patterns/AlgebraPatterns can be notoriously difficult to define. This handout provides illustrations of teacher-child interactions that help take…
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Measurement/DataThis thinking story describes how children’s basic ideas of small, larger, and largest gradually evolve into sound understanding…
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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 resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about shape. The basic idea is to help your participants gain some…
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Spatial RelationsThis activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore the attributes of 2-D geometric figures (similar to how one would…
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Spatial RelationsThis activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore their comfort level and fears around teaching geometry and spatial…
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Patterns/AlgebraThis resource is designed to engage your participants in learning about patterns and algebraic thinking. The activities are similar to…
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Spatial RelationsThis is an assignment completed by one of my students in which she conducted a clinical interview exploring a young child’s mathematical…
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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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CountingThis activity was developed for our graduate students (prospective early childhood teachers). It helps adults to understand how…
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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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OperationsThis activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s development in operations as children solve problems…
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