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The Path to Early Math: What Preschool Teachers Need to Know - Paperback

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Whether you are a teacher looking for ways to strengthen the math learning in your early childhood classroom, an educator in a community of practice who wants to learn more about teaching math in developmentally appropriate ways, or a teacher-educator who wants to offer students an easy-to-use reference and guide for helping young children develop their math competencies and skills, this text will help you make math learning a fun and worthwhile activity in your setting. Filled with photographs of children engaged in real experiences that demonstrate specific math concepts, chapters follow a developmental order: One-to-one correspondence; Forming sets; Object counting; Patterning; Measurement; Two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes; Parts and wholes; and Computation. Paperback. 288 pages.

Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Scarlett ★★★★★

The chapters on number sense and patterns are laid out so clearly that I finally feel equipped to plan math activities for my preschool classroom. It’s dense but readable, and the real-world examples made it easy to apply the next day.

Isabella ★★★★★

I’ve been using this in my co-op’s teacher circle, and the way it breaks down developmental stages into real classroom activities has already changed how I plan circle time. The chapter on number sense gave me three easy games to try the next morning, and my kids actually asked to play them again.

Abigail ★★★★★

The chapters on number sense and patterns gave me concrete activities I could try the very next day with my kids, and the research background is presented in a way that’s easy to digest. I’ve already loaned it to two co-teachers.