The document provides guidance for setting up a math center in early childhood education. It recommends including 5 categories: counting, measuring, comparing quantities, recognizing shapes, and becoming familiar with written numbers. For each category, 3-5 hands-on materials should be provided, such as food items for counting, measuring cups for measuring, and puzzles for shapes. Activities should be rotated daily to accommodate different learning styles. The math center allows children to learn abstract math concepts through play and hands-on exploration with teacher support.

1. Math Learning Center
Hanna Meath

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

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