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Cool Math Games - Thinking Games and Puzzles for Kids of All Ages
Description: This is a link to cool math games for kids of all ages. They include games for beginners to advanced, thinking games, arithmetic lessons, puzzles, geometry, etc.
Description: This Web site is fun for kids and educational at the same time. There are links to lots of subject as well as activities. There is a study zone with links to encyclopedias and fact books.
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A Family Note on Finding the Math
Description: This is an online newsletter from Head Start for parents on ways to incorporate math into every day living. An explanation of why math is important and suggestions for activities you can do with your children is included.
Author: Taylor-Cox, Jennifer
Description: This article from Young Children discusses what is needed for success in learning formal algebra is found in interconnected concepts that are developmentally appropriate and very applicable to early childhood education. The major concepts in the national algebra standards; patterns, mathematical situations and structures, models of quantitative relationships, and change, need to be fundamental aspects of an early childhood mathematics program. Information is provided on how to integrate mathematics into every day routines.
Author: Geist, Eugene
Description: In this presentation the author proposes that just as Chomsky has shown strong evidence for an innate "language acquisition device" that provides humans with a framework for learning language, there is a "mathematics acquisition device" that provides a framework for mathematical concepts. He offers evidence to support his claim.
(Lecture presented at the International Conference on Logical Mathematical Thinking)
Cool Math: Get Ready for Kindergarten
Description: This website provides fun activities that relate to children and mathematics. It provides information and ideas for parents and teachers that can be done in the course of a typical day.
Description: This fact sheet from Head Start discusses considerations for providing math and science development for infants and toddlers. The considerations serve as a useful guide for programs and teachers. Resources for additional information are also provided.
Early Childhood Mathematics: Promoting Good Beginnings
Description: A joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
The NCTM and the NAEYC affirm that high quality, challenging, and accessible mathematics education for 3-to-6-year-old children is a vital foundation for future mathematics learning. The statement includes recommendations for early childhood professionals.
An Executive Summary is available at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/Mathematics_Exec.pdf.
Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins Mathematics
Author: Fromboluti, Carol; Rinck, Natalie
Description: The activities in this booklet are designed to promote learning in all the thinking and content math standards. The thinking standards focus on the nature of mathematical reasoning, while the content standards are specific math topics. Each of the activities in this booklet touches one or more content areas and provide you with activities for young children that will help to get them ready for kindergarten. The activities build language skills, increase thinking and problem-solving abilities, develop social skills, promote large and small muscle development, and increase general knowledge.
Early Puzzle Play: A Predictor of Preschoolers' Spatial Transformation Skill
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Joanna Cannon; Janellen Huttenlocher; Kristin R. Ratliff
Description: This research summary discuses the relationship between early puzzle play and later math ability. It shows that the frequency and quality of early puzzle play varies across children and that engagement in puzzle play is associated with demographic variables as well as high levels of parent language input. It also shows that puzzle play predicts children’s later performance on a spatial transformation
task, even controlling for demographic factors and parent language input.
Every Day Counts® Everyday in Pre-K: Math Research Base
Description: This article is a reveiw of research regarding the acquisition of mathematical understanding by children. Written by Pre-K Now, it provides an overview of mathematics and how children learn about math.
Exploring Mathematics Everyday With Your Child
Description: This is a one page newsbrief for parents on ways to incorporate math into every day living. Suggestions for activities you can do with your children is included.
HAPPE: Toddlers in Physical Play
Author: Parish, Loraine; Mary Rudisill
Description: This NAEYC journal article focuses on High Autonomy Physical Play Environment (HAPPE). HAPPE motivates and engages toddlers in physical play and builds basic motor skills that are the foundation for lifetime activity.
It also includes another article "Extra: Ideas for engaging toddlers in indoor and outdoor physical play activities".
Have Fun Experimenting with Water
Description: This web site gives tips on ways water play can be fun and used as the beginning of scientific experiments.
Description: This Web site has links to all school subjects for kids to use as resources for school and knowledge. There are also study skills, language skills and speaking skills.
Description: This Hot Topic contain useful information on teaching children to manage money. Links are provided to fact sheets, activity ideas, and managing money for the holidays.
Description: Kids' Money is an interactive resource for parents, teachers, teens, kids, organizations and international visitors designed to help children develop successful money management habits and become financially responsible adults. This site continually changes as a result of new comments, suggestions and contributions. There is a section for parents with activities and strategies for teaching money management. There is also a list of children’s books about money, divided by age.
Making the Most of Math: Math in the Early Childhood Program 
Author: Weigel, Dan (15 more by this author); Martin, Sally
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of math skills that are learned in the early childhood years and how adults can support their development of math concepts.
Math Access for Teachers and Home Child Care Providers
Description: This website focuses on math resources for teachers and caregivers of young children. It provides math knowledge as it relates to young children as well as how to set up your environment, math activities, and resources.
Description: Because young children develop ideas about mathematics in the course of their day-to-day lives, it is important for adults to make the discovery of math easy, interesting, challenging, and fun. Math is everywhere. These resources will help teachers and parents understand what math concepts children are experimenting with and what they can do to support them.
Mathematics and Science in Preschool: Policy and Practice
Author: Brenneman, Kimberly (3 more by this author); Ellen C. Frede; Judi Stevenson-Boyd
Description: This report addresses the development of mathematics and science understanding in preschool children, reviews the current knowledge base on educational practices in these domains, identifies areas that require further study, and outlines recommendations for early education policy in mathematics and science.
Mathematics and Scientific Inquiry
Author: Epstein, Ann (2 more by this author)
Description: This article is a chapter in the book, "The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children's Learning', from NAEYC. In the past 25 years, studies of the development of early mathematics have switched from looking at what children cannot do to what they can do. Observations of children during free play, for example, show them engaged in mathematical explorations and applications, and sometimes these are surprisingly advanced. This article discusses how along with changing our ideas about what children can understand has come rethinking of how to foster early mathematical development. Included is explanations of what scientific inquiry and mathematical relationships mean and how adults can support children’s mathematical learning.
Description: This website was developed by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, and provides 20 essential, age-appropriate financial lessons—with corresponding activities—that kids need to know as they grow. Written in down-to-earth language for children and their families, Money as You Grow will help equip kids with the knowledge they need to live fiscally fit lives.
Money on the Bookshelf: A Family Financial Literacy Program
Author: Behal, Patricia (1 more by this author); Alice M. Crites; Virginia A. Haldeman; Jim Barcellos
Description: The purpose of this financial literacy curriculum guide is to provide parents and children in families with limited resources with opportunities to have positive interactions about money and to enhance the financial and lifelong learning skills of both parent and child. It was developed by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Mother Goose Programs: Math & Science Resources
Description: This website provides articles, resources, and activities that relate to children and mathematics. It provides information and ideas for parents and teachers.
Music and Math: How Do We Make the Connection for Preschoolers?
Author: Sawyers, Karen; Janet Hutson-Brandhagen
Description: In the article the authors cite research demonstrating the impact of music on the development of reasoning skills instrumental in math problem solving, and provide ideas on how teachers can integrate music and math in their classrooms. "Music is organized in mathematical ways: its melodies, rhythms, and harmonies are built on recurring mathematical patterns and sequences."
Picture Picture: How People Make Things
Description: This Web site offers video clips, pictures, and an online activity to help children understand that most things happen through a process; specifically how different items are made in a factory. It shows crayon, fortune cookies, etc. being made.
Preschool Curriculum Decision-Making: Dimensions to Consider
Author: Brenneman, Kimberly (3 more by this author); Judi Stevenson-Boyd; Ellen C. Frede
Description: This fact sheet provides a framework for decision-makers to use in evaluating which curriculum might be most appropriate for their specific preschool program.
Puzzle Play Helps Boost Learning Math - Related Skills
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Joanna Cannon; Janellen Huttenlocher; Kristin R. Ratliff
Description: This article highlights puzzle play that was found to be a significant predictor of spatial skill after controlling for differences in parents’ income, education and the overall amount of parent language input.
Description: This is a series of four bulletins to help parents prepare their children, age 3-6, for school. The bulletins consist of how parents can help their child develop in math, art, reading, and science through fun activities.
Talking to Children About Money
Description: This web article provides information on how to talk to children about money. Specific topics and information are provided for children of various ages.
Description: This Extension web resource focuses on teaching children about money. It has resources on allowance, money tips by age, free or low-cost activities for kids, Jump$tart Coalition, and other initiatives in Michigan.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Description: This site has yucky places for families to explore. Fun and educational too, lots of science information for kids.
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Author: Copley, Juanita
Description: This Webcast series is intended for personnel who support Head Start teaching teams: supervisors, directors, curriculum specialists, mentor-coaches, and T/TA staff. It is also appropriate for all teachers of young children including child care home providers, child care center staff, and preschool teachers. The age frame covered in these webcasts is birth to five so it is also appropriate for infant and toddler teachers.
This series includes 6 webcast sessions and recommended readings available to download.
Webcast One - Where's the Math?
Webcast Two - Number and Operations Math
Webcast Three - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Webcast Four - Measurement Math
Webcast Five - Patterns Math
Webcast Six - Putting It All Together Math
Unplanned Explorations and Lively Minds
Description: This fact sheet from NAEYC's Teaching Young Children magazine highlights the value of rich and meaningful learning that happens in authentic, everyday experiences. Early educators often spend much time and effort planning such
experiences. However, sometimes we support children’s learning best by stepping out of the way. This lets us learn alongside the children. These experiences emphasize the importance of following the children’s lead to see what they can teach us and each other.
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Butterfly-Making for Young Entomologists
Author: Ebesu, Richard
Description: The butterfly making activity publication is for people who work with young children. The activity teaches them the parts of an insect, the butterfly life cycle, and how insects are part of our environment. Educators working with young children can use this activity with reading stories about butterflies, accompany creating a butterfly garden, and other agriculture in the classroom activities. Most of the materials used are recycled and easy to obtain.
Author: Shelby, Wanda
Description: This extension resource offers videos on the topic of teaching children about money. It contains sections on talking about money, allowance, goal setting, saving, and spending. Each section has a video and a written script of the conversation in the video.
Early Childhood Mathematics: Promoting Good Beginnings
Description: A joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
The NCTM and the NAEYC affirm that high quality, challenging, and accessible mathematics education for 3-to-6-year-old children is a vital foundation for future mathematics learning. The statement includes recommendations for early childhood professionals.
An Executive Summary is available at http://208.118.177.216/about/positions/pdf/Mathematics_Exec.pdf.
Description: This Web site makes science fun as children can listen to and read along to radio programs and participate in other activities.
Launching into Literacy and Math: What is Early Math?
Author: Ballweg, Judy
Description: This website provides information on early math learning with more specific information on infants and toddlers, preschoolers, child assessments, and professional resources for teachers. Handouts are available including book lists, fingerplays and chants, Spanish resources, developmental milestones, and more.
Mathematics and Science in Preschool: Policies and Practices
Author: Brenneman, Kimberly (3 more by this author); Judi Stevenson-Boyd, Ellen C. Frede
Description: This policy brief reviews research addressing the development of mathematics and science knowledge in preschool children.
The brief addresses the development of mathematics and science understanding in preschool children, reviews the current knowledge base on educational practices in these domains, identifies areas that require further study, and outlines recommendations for early education policy in mathematics and science.
NASA Earth Science Enterprise For Kids Only
Description: This NASA web site has information for kids on air, land, water and natural hazards. This is a good learning site for kids and teachers.
Description: This Web site has information on astronauts, space, NASA, and space news. Kids and teachers will enjoy this site.
Neuroscience Resources for Kids
Description: This Web site has educational information on the nervous system, how the brain works, experiments and activities for kids.
Teaching and Evaluating Tiny Tots' (Pre-K - Grade 1) Personal Finance Attitudes
Author: O'Neil-Haight, Megan (2 more by this author); Rhodes, Amy
Description: This presentation for the CYFAR conference contains information on teaching children about money. From the first trade - one toy for another - children are in an economic world. A tale of successful personal money management lesson delivery in Head Start Centers, child care centers and primary schools will inspire those involved with little learners. An early childhood pictorial evaluation instrument is unveiled and results of piloting with over 1,000 students will be shared. A powerpoint presentation is available along with guides, and worksheets.
Author: Brown, Annette; Mary Beth Kaufman, Sue McDonnell; Donna Donald, Janet Garkey; Elizabeth Kiss
Description: This game can be used by parents to help children decide what is most important to them when it comes to spending their allowance.
What Counts in the Development of Young Children's Number Knowledge?
Author: Levine, Susan Cohen (2 more by this author); Linda Whealton Surlyakham; Meredith Rowe; Janellen Huttenlocher; Elizabeth Gunderson
Description: In this observational study, Levine and colleagues demonstrate how the number talk of 44 parents from low and high socio-economic backgrounds is significantly related to their children’s later cardinal number knowledge (e.g., understanding that when counting one, two, three, four ducks, the word four refers to the set of ducks). Cardinal number knowledge is a critical aspect of young children’s mathematical development because of its relation to counting and the ability to solve number problems. The authors show that parents’ use of number words when toddlers were between the ages of 14 and 30 months was related to children’s cardinal knowledge at 46 months. The relationship between parents’ number word use and children’s cardinal knowledge was significant above and beyond socio-economic status. This suggests that parents use of number words while children are toddlers is a key factor in supporting children’s mathematical understanding at 4 years of age, and mathematical understanding during early childhood is related to elementary academic outcomes.
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Math and Science in Preschool: Policies and Practice
Author: Brenneman, Kimberly (3 more by this author); Judi Stevenson-Boyd; Ellen C. Frede
Description: This policy sheet addresses the development of mathematics and science understanding in preschool children, reviews the current knowledge base on educational practices in these domains, identifies areas that require further study, and outlines recommendations for early education policy in mathematics and science.
Yet More Evidence: Time to Beef Up Math and Science in Pre-K
Description: This article from the Preschool Matters publication (pg 4) examines research that has established mathematics and science as essential components of a comprehensive, high-quality early education program. Evidence is accruing that early success in mathematics contributes to later positive learning outcomes. This means we can no longer accept mediocre professional training and preparation and lackluster classroom and teaching supports for educators of young children. Teachers need to be prepared by their professional training to better understand children's mathematical development and competence and to learn best methods for encouraging and extending children's learning.