The word “probability” reminds me of college statistics just like data analysis did last week. You might think that the principles of probability are not introduced mathematically to children until middle school – but actually they can and should be introduced much earlier. Young children like to think about the “chance” of something happening. Introducing […]
The most recent statistics about the state of children and poverty in America was released on Friday. Since I didn’t want to ruin your weekend with the grim statistics, I thought I would ruin your Monday instead. Click here to see the report.
This article appeared in my inbox this morning and I though I should share it with you. It outlines a project from a Preschool for All Funded project in the northwest suburbs. The article outlines the Project Approach as undertaken by a group of preschoolers from a diverse community. They studied “Pets” over several weeks. […]
This is the last apple math activity for the month of September. So sad! The measurement of circumference is hard. It is hard to imagine how big something is in general and it is really hard to imagine how big around something is. Children may be able to tell you that one apple is bigger […]
Parents Must Do More to Encourage Young Children at Math According to a 2007 study in the journal Developmental Psychology, math skills at entry to kindergarten are the strongest predictor of later school achievement, outperforming even reading skills and the ability to focus attention at indicating future academic success. Ongoing research continues to reaffirm that […]
Geoboards aren’t that different in look and size from Peg Boards, but their purpose and use is completely different. At the last preschool where I worked, we had homemade geoboards, which were fantastic. They were solidly made and kids could really work to cover them with loads and loads of rubber bands. Usually, the boards […]
Baking apple pies as a cooking activity is a great idea filled with all sorts of math. Children can do a lot of the work as well (kneading the dough, pressing it into the pans, stirring the nutmeg and cinnamon into the apple slices) but today I though we could look at apple pie fractions. […]
I haven’t really gotten involved with Pinterest, but I know plenty of folks who have. The way I understand it is that you can choose pictures that speak to you in some way and then “pin” them on your board. You have to join to have a page but others can see public pages. I […]
On Saturday, I was walking my pugs when I came across this fabulous chalk drawing on the next block over. I wish you could see it. The circles got larger and it wrapped around a corner with numbers going up to 15. What do you think the children thought of this? What did they use […]
I know I said that we would explore more types of peg boards later on this year, but I couldn’t resist taking a look at this manipulative this week. How great are these? Yes, they are much more didactic and much less open-ended than last week’s peg boards, but that is ok, sometimes. If you […]