Use the powerful strategies of play and storytelling to help young children develop their "math brains." This easy-to-use resource includes fun activities, routines, and games inspired by children's books that challenge children to recognize and think more logically about the math all around them.
Autorentext
Mary Hynes-Berry, PhD, has more than 40 years of experience teaching through oral storytelling while working directly with young children. Her original focus was literacy, but she soon began to find ways to weave in mathematics as she worked with preservice and in-service early childhood professionals. Mary is a faculty member at Erikson Institute in Chicago and a founding member of Erikson Institute's Early Math Collaborative, which provides professional development and carries out applied research on foundational math in early childhood. She is the author of Don't Leave the Story in the Book: Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2012) and a contributing author of Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (Pearson, 2014) and Growing Mathematical Minds: Conversations Between Developmental Psychologists and Early Childhood Teachers (Routledge, 2019).
Klappentext
Make math learning both meaningful and fun by building on children's natural curiosity to help them grow into confident problem solvers and investigators of math concepts. Using five math-related questions children wonder about as a framework, this book helps you go deeper into everyday math with children by offering
. A basic overview of math ideas behind matching and sorting, patterns, number sense, measuring, and spatial relationships
. 20 activities appropriate for children in preschool and kindergarten based on new and classic children's books, games, and classroom routines
. Suggestions for individualizing activities for diverse learners
. Recommendations for more than 75 children's books that encourage math-rich thinking and investigation
. Examples of intentional questions, comments, and conversations that stretch and focus children's understanding of math concepts
Empower yourself with the guidance and ideas in this practical resource to use play and storytelling to challenge children to think more complexly about the math in everything they see, hear, and do.
Inhalt
Preface
Introduction
Matching and Sorting
Chapter 1: How Are These the Same? How Are These Different?
Not Quite the Same
Resorting to (Re-)Sorting
Sorting with Shoes
Oh, the Weather Outside!
Patterns
Chapter 2: What Comes Next?
Pattern Detectives
Stairstep Story Patterns
Cycles as Patterns
And . . . Action!
Number Sense
Chapter 3: How Many Do We Have, Need, or Want?
Some Frogs Here, Some Frogs There
A Treat to Eat
Counting By Feet
Counting in My World
Measuring
Chapter 4: How Big Is It?
Building with Blocks
Finding the Right Fit
Bigger This Way, Bigger That Way
The Letter Club
Spatial Relationships
Chapter 5: Where Is It?
Obstacle Course Adventures
Shaping Up a Quilt
Shape Scavenger Hunt
Built-It Challenge
Final Thoughts
Glossary
Book List
References
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Authors