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Coding in Kindergarten and its Impact on Mathematical and Literacy Development
The Coding in Kindergarten project highlights the importance of developmentally appropriate coding opportunities for our youngest learners in order to foster their spatial reasoning, estimation, numeracy, oral literacy and problem-solving skills.
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Exploring Spatial Reasoning in Full-Day Kindergarten
Educator teams from two full-day kindergarten classrooms and an Instructional resource teacher for mathematics explored the implementation of spatial reasoning tasks from the Taking Shape resource (Moss, J., et al.).
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Bringing Douglas Clements’ Trajectories to Life 2A
The team brought children’s learning to life through the use of a learning trajectory for mathematics. While capturing this learning on video, teachers began to construct a deeper understanding of how children acquire their conceptual understanding.
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Bringing Douglas Clements’ Math Learning Trajectories to Life Part 2B
Level(s): Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6Resource(s) Available:We dug deeply into the Spatial Thinking chapter of Clements’ book, Learning and Teaching Early Math. We broke up the trajectory even further in order to make it even easier for teachers to use to help move their students through their math thinking.
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Understanding and Developing Early Years Thinking in Math: Exploring the Connection between Number Sense and Spatial Sense
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, mathDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): KindergartenResource(s) Available:Exploring the connection between number sense and spatial sense.
