Comments on: Using Children’s Literature to Reinforce Counting and Cardinality

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:44:20 +0000

I love the idea for furthering a child’s number sense while also developing their visual literacy skills (pictures=meaning).

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:55:30 +0000

I love using books to help child learn about counting because tying literature and math together always gets children thinking and keeps them engaged.

By: Jan Falvey

Jan Falvey — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:09:17 +0000

I love patterns. Most of the kids I work with like them too. I think this can be a great tool for diffusing tense situations.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:33:14 +0000

I currently work with young toddlers (almost 2) — who have all learned the famous \”Monkeys Jumping on the Bed\” — and we have several book adaptations of this, also. I have already made stick monkey puppets for them to \”jump\” (move up and down) as they recite the fingerplay. Now I plan to take that another step — using a large shoe box or other prop as a \”bed\” in which the monkeys will \”fall\” and emphasize counting/subtracting and asking lots of questions –\” where did the monkeys go?\”, \”how many are left?\” \”whose monkey needs a bandage?\”, \”how many bandages do we need?\”, etc.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0000

We use many different file folder games and matching games, we also like using the games that are \”roll a snowman\”, \”roll a reindeer\” etc. they are a really good tool for children to increase their number vocabulary.

By: Monica Perkins

Monica Perkins — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:04:13 +0000

Connecting math with outdoors is a fun way of teaching young children about math. Taking a nature walk while looking for items such as 7 sticks, 5 rocks or 3 leaves and then graphing the outcome and possibly making comparisons is a great ways to incorporate math teaching in the classroom.

By: Monica Perkins

Monica Perkins — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:37:27 +0000

In our center we use counting bears (and sometimes gummy bears) to teach colors, size comparisons, weight and few or more vocabulary. Sometimes we use the flannel board and fruit flannel pieces to teach patterns.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:25:55 +0000

I love using books to teach patterning. The kids are learning Math concepts in a fun way.