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OperationsThis activity provides participants with an opportunity to explore children’s early abilities in fair-sharing and to explore their…
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OperationsThis video of four-year-old Ethan illustrates how young children engage in mathematics in real-life situations as he distributes rocks "…
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OperationsThis is a Math Thinking Story about a five-year-old preschool girl, who was interviewed towards the end of the school year in May.…
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OperationsChildren have intuitive ideas about operating on number from a very early age. This piece helps us begin to think about the ways in…
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OperationsMultiplication and division are often considered to be too mathematically complex for young children. However, we see that young…
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OperationsThis story is written not for children, but for prospective and practicing teachers. It takes the child’s point of view about operations…
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OperationsAn accessible overview of the mathematics of operations. Patterning, decomposition, place value, and equivalence are all key ideas…
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OperationsThis piece explores the intuitive strategies that young children use to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division…
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OperationsHere is a brief account of how an understanding of the operations develops in the preschool years.…
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CountingA vignette about Joan and Tessa exploring how teachers learn to help their children explore math, not only through play, but also…
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CountingThis is a story of participants who think that they are not good at math and are not enthusiastic about teaching it. They learn that…
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CountingThis is the story of two teachers who learn how to blend their insistence on high quality support for early math learning with an…
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CountingAdditional readings about the development of and mathematics of counting. Download the articles directly from this page.
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OverviewHere are several published papers that cover relevant issues to the teaching and learning of mathematics in early childhood.
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OverviewThis activity supports facilitating Common Core Mathematical Practices in the classroom. It provides participants with an opportunity to…
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CountingAn accessible introduction to mathematical ideas basic to counting. Counting depends on mathematical ideas, including the…
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CountingThis account describes how number develops in the preschool range, from about 3-5 years, and provides a detailed overview of the various…
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