Ed Source – Zaidee Stavely
“A group of California parents and preschool teachers are overcoming their fear of math and discovering new confidence to teach it to young children through an unexpected source: storybooks. A series of activities designed to teach math concepts inspired by children’s books are being piloted in Fresno as part of the California Statewide Early Math Initiative, which aims to improve how preschool teachers and parents teach and talk about math concepts with young children. At an event to kick off the project, preschoolers and parents at the Lighthouse for Children Child Development Center built boats with aluminum foil, modeling clay and popsicle sticks, and then placed them in water to see if they would float. Other children traced and cut out shapes from construction paper and glued them down to create animals, or counted and played with colorful plastic balls to see how many would fit in different containers.” (more)