Early Math Counts

This page taken from the PreKinders website has many great ideas for more graphing activities you can do with your kids.  Take a minute to explore this site – it is really nice.

…that you can “like” the Early Math Counts blog on your social media pages by clicking on the link below each post?  That way, if you have friends or colleagues in the field of early care and education, they too, can benefit from the Early Math Counts website.

This is one of the most important questions that the author of Early Math in Illinois: Recognizing and Raising the Profile explores in depth.  She outlines many of the factors that result in inequitable access to quality math education during the early years, but focuses primarily on socio-economic disparities and language barriers as two of […]

Do they make dominos for infants and toddlers as well? Dominos were originally designed as an adult game with versions like Muggins, Mexican Train or Five-Up. Over the years, people have made up their own games using dominos, just like playing cards.  For generations, dominos have been a family favorite around the world. I have written several […]

Today I want to show you three examples of graphs made with children.  The first is an example of good practice – with one suggestion for improvement. In this first example, children voted for their favorite foods by drawing a picture of the food and writing its name.  The graph is simple and easy to […]

When we applied to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for a grant to develop this website, the folks over at the Erikson Institute also applied to support research and services in early math learning.  They call their project the “Early Math Collaborative,” and they are doing amazing work. Check it out here.

Recently, the Illinois Early Learning Math Advisory Committee published Early Math in Illinois: Recognizing and Raising the Profile. This committee was convened by INCCRRA with funding from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation The committee was charged with determining the best methods for delivering professional development of early childhood math to early educators, thereby supporting improved development […]

There are all sorts of marble towers, marble runs, and super marble runs in the market place.  You can usually purchase a starter kit with a certain number of bridges, spirals, and base pieces included and later add to your collection with supplemental kits designed to enhance and expand the play. These toys promote design […]

Sometimes, when you dig a little deeper on a website that you have explored many times before, you find a page, (or an article, link, photograph, quote) that you never noticed in the past.  Today I found this on the NAEYC website, there is a link to the Engaging Diverse Families Project. There you will […]

In our exploration of graphing, I wanted to show you a really good example of collecting data in a meaningful way, before we look at some less than ideal examples. Above, you can see that this group of children chose their favorite book between “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” and “Panda Bear, Panda Bear.”  Using name […]