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The explorations below are for parents of child ages 2-6 (although teachers may find them useful and may adapt them for their purposes as well). These explorations are organized according to a list of big Ideas from The Big Ideas of Early Mathematics: What Teachers of Young Children Need to Know (referred to as Big Ideas below) by Erikson... You can find out more about this book here on my blog www.mathbookmagic.com. In this book, 26 big ideas are organized under 9 topics. This post is about the first topic, Sets, and its three related big ideas. SETS: Using Attributes To Sort Collections

Sets are fundamental mathematical objects. For example, they are basic to our number system and counting. For example, before you can count something, you have to decide what to count and that involves identifying sets. Take a look at the image below and answer the question: How many? If you answered, 20, you probably counted all the beads. There are 20 beads.

How else could you answer the question, How many? Here are a few possible answers: There are 10 animal beads. There are 5 red beads. There are 2 red animal beads. All of these counts involve forming sets before counting: a set of animal beads, a set of red beads, and the subset of red animal beads. Note: Making sets may involve physically separating out the sets or mentally identifying sets.

Here are three big ideas Erikson Institute’s Early Math Collaborative identifies for Topic 1: Sets: Help Children Build Positive Math Attitudes → What to Do When Children Don’t Want to Do Math → Playful Early Math Learning in Pediatric Clinics Math Conversations While Getting Ready for Bed Math Conversations While Grocery Shopping

I’m a mother, teacher, writer and lover of mathematics. This website offers a curated collection of resources for sharing the wonder and joy of mathematics. I hope teachers and parents find it useful.Disclaimer: I recently updated to a new website template and lost some formatting in many of my old posts. I’m working on it. My apologies if you go to a post and the formatting is a mess. Stay updated with my latest posts by joining this newsletter.

Welcome to Early Math Counts, a website designed to help you foster the development of early math skills in children between the ages of birth and five. Each month, thousands of early childhood educators and parents visit our website to: Visit often to gain the knowledge and teaching skills you need to bring early math concepts to life for our nation’s youngest learners! Learn the math concepts you’ll need to teach young children Set up an environment that promotes math literacy It is important to encourage young children to be active with blocks and toys, sorting and exploring.

The Fairy Math Mother blog provides a wonderful set of activities that parents can use to explore with the little ones. In the nursery, Isa, 6 months, adjusts her reach in order to grab the rattle on the floor. At snack time, Demaris, 9 months, runs his fingers around the square lid to the crackers. He then touches the point at the corner of the cracker box and runs his fingers down its straight edge. Ben, 11 months, crawls over to the wooden barn and tries to fit his body inside while Ashanti, 12 months, fills a bucket with plastic blocks, then dumps them out. In the toddler room next door, Kyra, 28 months, notices her friend at the snack table has two crackers while she has one.

She points to her friend’s crackers with a questioning look on her face. Across the room, Josiah takes his teacher’s hand and walks her over to the tower he built with blocks: “Hey, look! Mine is so big!” Outside, Marley, 30 months, sits at the water table and starts filling a jar using a small spoon. It takes a long time, so she switches to a ladle instead. Nearby, the teacher is telling Chase where the balls are: “In the basket, next to the shed.”

It may not seem possible that infants and toddlers take in and develop a foundation of math knowledge as very young children. But in the examples above, children are developing and displaying their understanding of math concepts like calculations, measurement, comparison, and spatial relationships as they explore and move through the world around them. Research shows that children are born with some math knowledge (Nuwer 2013) and that math concepts continue to develop and deepen across the early years.

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