Features & Benefits
The best way to develop the language that young learners need to develop a deep conceptual understanding of measurement is to involve them in comparison activities. These include:
- Direct Comparison: Comparing
- Direct Comparison: Ordering
- Indirect Comparison: Equivalence and Counting
- Indirect Comparison: Representing Results
These activities encourage children to:
- Communicate reasoning
- Engage in discussion
- Reflect on experiences
- Connect new ideas with existing mathematical knowledge
Activities can be further divided into:
- Individual Activities
- Small-Group Activities
- Whole-Class Activities
- Reproducible blackline activities
- Skills, Knowledge and Abilities Promoted in Students
- Expand and deepen conceptual knowledge
- Encourage representation abilities
- Strengthen problem solving skills
- Develop communication skills
- Problem solve and connect mathematical ideas
Series Overview
The Mathematics for Young Minds Set is a collection of 6 teacher instruction activity books for Pre-K through to Grade 1. The series provides activities that are rich in concrete materials and language to expand and deepen conceptual knowledge.
These activities, which include blackline masters, help young children in the initial reasoning processes of identifying and describing attributes, matching, sorting, comparing, measurement, and ordering.
