IELDS Standard: 6.A.ECa
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Math Is Everywhere
Keep children engaged when you have to wait
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The House Project
Laura Deluca and Sandy DunnPershing Early Learning CenterDecatur, Illinois Decatur is a community of about 76,000 in Macon County. The Pershing Early Learning Center in northwest Decatur houses 17 half-day prekindergarten classes for at-risk children, 6 half-day inclusive classes, 7 self-contained early childhood special education classes, and a parent-involvement program for children from birth to…
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Helping Children Take Surveys
Children can use surveys just as adults do—to collect information from other people. Surveys can help them find out about others’ opinions, preferences, predictions, and experiences. Taking part in a survey can spark children’s personal interest in a project and increase their engagement with the topic, with classmates, and with others around them. A class…
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All About Gardens
Projects are the part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. A project focusing on gardens has the potential to involve the entire class, the children’s families, and community…
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Investigating Wheels
A project is a part of the curriculum that involves children in investigating objects and events around them that are worth knowing more about. Project work is a way of uncovering a subject rather than just covering it. A project on wheels has the potential to involve the entire class, the children’s families, and community…
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Going Camping
Three-year-old Ellie and her mother are playing with familiar toy family figures, a dollhouse, furniture, and a camper. By listening carefully to what Ellie says as they play, her mother discovers things that she can help Ellie understand in areas such as counting, good manners, and nutrition.
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Where the Chick Came From
This clip suggests some of the benefits of introducing very young children to live animals.
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Observing Chickens on the Playground
Teachers have given children an opportunity to observe chickens during free play, after first having arranged some activities that allowed the children to become somewhat familiar with the chickens in another setting.
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Counting Crackers
Children in this mixed-age early childhood center are taking part in open snack.
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Counting Chickens
This video shows preschool children engaged in mathematical thinking and in complex use of language as they watch chickens in a pen on their school playground.
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Making Sense of Numbers
Help your child discover the mathematical world by finding opportunities to bring numbers into conversations and play.
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Counting Up, Down, and All Around!
Understanding how much or how many is an important skill for young children to develop. Help your child learn about number quantities by exploring the mathematical world around you!
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Math and the Project Approach
Young children develop math competencies when their teachers know what math concepts and skills young children are most likely to be ready to learn and should know (Illinois State Board of Education, 2013) and when teachers know where each child’s individual level of progress and performance is in relation to mastery of those competencies.
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Path to Math: Word Problems for Preschoolers
Children as young as 3 may enjoy solving simple word problems.
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Path to Math: More Word Problems for Preschoolers
Do you know a preschooler who easily solves simple word problems that involve adding and taking away?
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Path to Math: More Numbers
Here are some ways to help older preschool children learn more about numbers.
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Path to Math: Beginning Numbers
Here are some ways you can help preschool children learn about numbers.
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Learning Math Through Games
Playing active games is fun for most children, and it can build a strong sense of community in a classroom.
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Math
You can use waiting time to show your child that Math = Part of Life.