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Let's talk about math : the LittleCounters approach to building early math skills

Summary: Math cannot wait. Children who can count with ease before kindergarten have a better shot at future mathematics success--and with this book, it's simple and fun to weave counting and other math concepts into everyday activities. Drawn from the authors' playful and popular LittleCounters® workshops, this guidebook shows early educators, caregivers, and parents how to use purposeful play with children from birth to 5 to promote mathematical thinking and get them ready for formal math instruction. Packed with easy, no-fear strategies any adult can use--even if you're math-phobic!--this book will help all the teachers in a child's life foster critical early math knowledge and school readiness.

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ISBN: 9781598575897
ISBN: 1598575899
ISBN: 9781598577648
ISBN: 1598577646
Physical Description: print
xii, 133 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher: Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mathematical Brains of Young Children (Birth to 5 Years) -- Sensitivity to Quantity/Numerosity -- Linking Numerosity to Number Words -- Counting -- Subitizing -- Ordinality, Ordering Numbers, and Ordinal Numbers -- Arithmetic -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 2 Purposeful Play -- Mathematics Made Playful and Mathematizing Elements of Play -- Adults' Role in Play -- Free Play -- Play-Based Learning -- Purposeful Play -- Assessing Learning Through Play -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 3 Counting with Your LittleCounters -- Symbolic Representations of Numbers -- LittleCounters -- Developmentally Appropriate Countable Sets -- Forward Counting First -- Using Fingers and Gestures to Count -- Name It, Show It (and Say It), Touch It (and Say It), Move It (and Say It), Say It -- Count Everything and Anything -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 4 Let's Talk About Numbers! -- What Is Mathematical Talk? -- What Do Parents Talk About with Their Young Children?
Contents note continued: Talking and Learning About Numbers -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 5 Other Mathematical Thinking -- Visual Spatial Reasoning -- Visual Spatial Development -- Navigating Space -- Shapes -- Block Play -- Measurement -- Comparison -- Adding and Subtracting -- Patterning and Early Algebra -- Estimation -- Proportional Reasoning -- Problem Solving -- Ordinal Numbers -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 6 Mathematics in Everyday Routines and Activities -- Meals -- Preparing Food -- Setting the Table -- Eating -- Cleaning Up the Kitchen -- Bedtime -- Reading Stories -- Saying Good Night -- Chores and Helping -- Tidy Up! -- Laundry -- Gardening -- Grooming -- Dressing -- Hand Washing -- Hair Brushing -- Bathing -- Toothbrushing -- Organization and Time -- Lists -- Waiting -- Telling Time -- First This, Second That -- Chapter Summary -- ch. 7 Mathematics Education During Formal Schooling -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics -- Readiness for Schooling.
Contents note continued: Narrowing the Gap -- Gender and Mathematics -- The Role of Parents -- Teachers and Teacher Knowledge -- Chapter and Book Summary.