How to make counting count! This influential book inspires preschool and elementary teachers to experience the joys and rewards of using two activities-Choral Counting and Counting Collections-regularly in their classrooms and in their partnerships with families. It paints a vision for how deeply and creatively children can engage with ideas of number and operations and mathematical sense-making through counting. Megan L. Franke, Elham Kazemi, and Angela Chan Turrou have collected the wisdom of mathematics teachers and researchers across the country who explore activities that are at once playful and intentional, simple and sophisticated. For teachers who want to jumpstart student participation and deepen mathematical understanding, this can be your go-to guide. In six clear, engaging chapters, accompanied by an online Choral Counting tool, you will learn: How to facilitate open-ended counting activities to deepen children's number sense How counting activities can produce both social and academic benefits How teachers can engage with families to build on students' mathematical thinking How to facilitate collaborative activities with multiple entry points and multiple ways to be successful Teachers will see that while the activities stay the same, the mathematics deepens over time and students' learning evolves. Let counting be a gateway into your students' mathematical insights. You might be surprised at what you learn!

Tap into the Power of Child-Led Math Teaching and Learning Winner of the 2022 Excel Silver Award for Technical Book. Everything a child does has mathematical value-these words are at the heart of this completely revised and updated third edition of The Young Child and Mathematics. Grounded in current research, this classic book focuses on how teachers working with children ages 3 to 6 can find and build on the math inherent in children's ideas in ways that are playful and intentional. This resource * Illustrates through detailed vignettes how math concepts can be explored in planned learning experiences as well as informal spaces * Highlights in-the-moment instructional decision-making and child-teacher interactions that meaningfully and dynamically support children in making math connections * Provides an overview of what children know about counting and operations, spatial relations, measurement and data, and patterns and algebra * Offers examples of informal documentation and assessment approaches that are embedded within classroom practice Deepen your understanding of how math is an integral part of your classroom all day, every day. Includes online video!