2. 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
3. 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
4. Item #1 ~ Measuring
Using measuring cups/spoons
Balance scales to weigh
Rulers and tape measures
Thermometers
Foot size measurer
5. Item #1 ~ Counting Quantities
Cubes of different kinds that can stack to different heights
Nested cups
Charts and graphs
Dominoes
Playing cards
6. Item #1 ~ Recognizing Shapes
Puzzles with different shapes
Geoboards
Attribute blocks of variety
Parquetry blocks
Pattern or matching cards for any shape toys
7. Item #1 ~ Becoming Familiar With Written
Numbers
Number puzzles
Magnetic numbers
Play telephone
Clocks
Calendar
Number books and posters
8. 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.
9. 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.)
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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).
13. 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
14. Approaches to Learning
Strand 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