I love listening to kids and their math reasoning when you give them an opportunity to tell you how they think! They have masterful minds. I love the ways they come up with to tell you how their brain is thinking, and even if they aren’t sure how their brain is thinking, they tell you in their cute five-year-old way!
Why did I as a teacher/parent not really care that my four-year-old could count from 1 to 100? Kids can look at a digit and recognize it as an 8, but they often don’t understand what’s behind the digit.
Did you know that a child's ability to skip is correlated with his or her math skills? Did you know that static/dynamic balance has a lot to do with readiness for reading? Motor development, both fine and gross, does matter a great deal as we take a whole child...
We have all been there...trying to get students to develop one-to-one correspondence with concrete objects. You have a pile of counters ready on your table."Watch how I do it," you say. "1, 2, 3, 4." And with great patience, you carefully move one counter at a time...
The residents of Mathville help 1-5 grade students build a solid foundation of problem solving strategies.