The key to coming up with great ideas for math in early childhood is to focus on mathematical thinking. What will get your child to using math in play? Whether your child is sorting different sizes or colors of flowers into vases or graphing a set of bottle caps, your child is building the skills to think and learn about mathematical concepts.
Here are some ways we encourage mathematical thinking...
Raindrop graphing on the flannel board
The flannel board is such a great teaching tool when you think outside the box a bit. This week, we turned the flannel board into a raindrop measuring graph!
At play on the math table
As each new school year comes around, I add a little something here and there to spruce up the learning environment and to give me
Dominoes on the tinker table
Dominoes are a wonderful tool for play and I have a collection of dominoes that I pull out every school year for the children to explore. On this particular day, the children spent time tinkering with dominoes on our tinker table…
More with math bags
Over the past four years, I have blogged off and on about our math bags so I thought I would bring a little update to
Learning with lids in preschool
Lids are a wonderful resource to invite all kinds of early learning and development. We spent the day learning with LOTS of lids in our preschool classroom!
Popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in preschool
Stop on by and check out our exploration of popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in our preschool classroom!
Colorful fun with musical notes
As part of our unit on xylophones, we invited the children to explore some simple and colorful fun with musical notes.
The math box
Today’s simple math process was a fun way to put our math tokens to good use in our preschool classroom!
Coin collectors
Our students recently spent some time exploring coins in preK.
Heart math : Five simple math ideas for preschoolers
Here are five simple heart math ideas our prek students explored this week.
Drawing lines and ladders for math
The subject of ladders came up in my classroom a few weeks (or longer) ago and my class has been asking for me to bring a ladder in that they could climb ever since. So today, I brought in a ladder and we explored the ladder along with drawing our own lines and letters for math.
I-Spy math bag game
Today I’m sharing a fun visual discrimination math bag activity that our children loved!
The simplest holiday invitation to play ever!
If you want to add a little spark of curiosity to your classroom, then pick up a few Christmas boxes and you will have the simplest holiday invitation to play ever.
Simple domino math for preschoolers
The children worked on developing their math skills as they played this simple domino game in prekindergarten.
Making simple crayon patterns in preschool
Our Pre-k students explored the process of making simple patterns using crayons and a strip of paper
Egg carton math
See how to quickly put together an entire set of fun and simple math boxes!