Young children develop number sense through five key counting principles, following a universal path grounded in research and observation. Learn more about how numerical understanding develops and explore playful activities you can use to support it.
Zero is a powerful number with a complex history and surprising significance in mathematics. Learn about how the brain interprets zero and the history of the number, along with ideas on how to start conversations about zero in the classroom.
This three-part, hands-on lesson uses baking to teach students how to understand, compare, and work with fractions. Students measure ingredients, double and triple recipes to practice adding and multiplying fractions, and identify and compare fractions in their own recipes.
3 dice games + 3 card games that work for any holiday party in the classroom or at home. The games target number sense and data management in a playful manner and take little effort to learn. All you need are dice or a deck of playing cards to get started.
There are many ways to practice becoming fluent with place value and understanding the relationships between digits. But this is the only game you need to know to help children gain a conceptual understanding of numbers.
Grade 4/5 Teacher Zoe Donoahue shares the Daily Math Discussion shes developed for junior grades. Her students use the number of days in school to explore factors, prime and composite numbers, fractions, division, multiplication, place value and more!
Fraction Ball converts a traditional basketball court, putting focus on the relationship between fractions and their equivalent decimals. Fraction Ball can be painted pretty much anywhere or even drawn with chalk, says University of California-Irvine Assistant Professor Dr. Andres Bustamante.
The ability to identify and match numbers is important, but what is often missing is foundational understanding of place value. Interview-style approaches can reveal how a student thinks about ones, tens and eventually hundreds, thousands, and beyond.
Whole number bias is the tendency to apply or misapply ones understanding of whole numbers or natural numbers the numbers we typically count with to rational numbers. It makes sense that people might apply what they have learned about whole numbers, like 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to their understanding of fractions, but unfortunately this leads to all kinds of misunderstandings about fractions.
Students use math to explore how explore the factors that influence ones ability to access food.
The importance of early mathematics is increasingly recognized with a growing body of evidence linking early math skills to later academic achievement.
When the 遙ぺ整氈窒 government rolled out its new math curriculum in 2020, it was touted as a back-to-basics approach.