Math Learning CenterHanna Meath

Item #1

Five categories are required in the math center. In these categories there should be 3-5 materials provided for the children. Five categories include

Counting Measuring Comparing quantities Recognizing shapes Becoming familiar with written numbers

Item #1 ~ Counting

When teaching to count its best to use fun items like foods. Counting money in a play register Using beads and bead patterns Pegs to fill different numbers of pegboard holes

Item #1 ~ Measuring

Using measuring cups/spoons Balance scales to weigh Rulers and tape measures Thermometers Foot size measurer

Item #1 ~ Counting Quantities

Cubes of different kinds that can stack to different heights Nested cups Charts and graphs Dominoes Playing cards

Item #1 ~ Recognizing Shapes

Puzzles with different shapes Geoboards Attribute blocks of variety Parquetry blocks Pattern or matching cards for any shape toys

Item #1 ~ Becoming Familiar With Written Numbers

Number puzzles Magnetic numbers Play telephone Clocks Calendar Number books and posters

Item #2

To ensure diversity activity's would be rotated daily. This ensures children with different learning methods have the greatest chance of grasping the subject.

Item #3

By providing access to the math center daily activities children will learn abstract concepts (like something written can stand for something physical) and the understanding of basic math (size, shape, and quantity.)

Item #4

The teachers role in facilitating in math is to help them figure out the materials and to help demonstrate how to use them.

Examples: Sorting items by color and figuring out the amount of them and deciding which color has the

most and least Help to figure out how many measuring cups are needed to fill a certain container Making charts and graphs

Cognition and General Knowledge Strand 1: Learning About Mathematical Concepts

A. Numbers and Operations (pg. 84) A5. Begin to count by rate. Strategies

Providing opportunities for child to help distribute items to others, giving each person “one” or to find a shoe for each foot

Playing games that involve counting Modeling counting “out loud” in natural situations

Cognition and General Knowledge Strand 1: Learning About Mathematical Concepts

A. Measurment (pg. 86) B2. Show some awareness to the relative size of objects Strategies

Providing child with toys that have incremental sizes (e.g, nesting cups, stackable rings).

Approaches to Learning Strand 1: Persistence

A4. Increase the amount of time they persist in repetitive tasks or preferred activities. (pg. 58)

Strategies Providing several stacking type toys that encourage a child to use a variety of motions such

as dumping and stacking Demonstrating confidence in child by not interrupting or redirecting when child is focused on

an activity

Approaches to LearningStrand 4: Reasoning and Problem-Solving

D9. Develop increasing abilities to classify, compare and contrast objects, events and experiences (pg. 66)

Strategies Providing objects for sorting Engaging child to notice similarities and differences in environment(e.g, different types of

vehicles on the road) Using comparative words or phrases naturally in daily conversations

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