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

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 * Computation