Website Archive - April, 2007
Spotlight on Logical Mathematics
Children
Here are some websites with basic math activities for children to enjoy online.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has a collection of 15 games on their Count Us In website. These games are designed to help children learn basic math concepts such as, counting, sorting and grouping, length, and patterns. There is no sound, so an adult will need to explain the games to the children. The “other activities” section includes teacher resources with additional activities to do with children.
Check out Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse games. You’ll find Mousekespotter, a matching game, and Mystery Picture Count Up, a counting game that will help develop math competencies.
Parents
Here is some information and also math-related activities that you can do with your children at home.
The U.S. Department of Education has an online booklet Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins that has mathemtaical activities for parents and their two- to five-year old children. The Introduction gives an overview of how to use the booklet while What Is Mathematics? describes the thinking math standards of problem solving, communication, reasoning, and connections, and the content math standards of estimation, number sense, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, statistics and probability, fractions and decimals, and patterns and relationships. There are 4 pages of Activities for Your Day that will give you ideas to use with your child throughout the day. Make sure you click on the Next button at the bottom of each page to get to the subsequent pages of activities.
The Teacher Web has Ideas and Activities for Families which includes ideas for helping to develop your child’s math skills, including numbers and operations (working with numbers), patterns (designs, relationships), geometry and spatial sense ( shape, sizes, space), measurement (length, width, height, weight), and data analysis and probability (graphs, charts).
Here are lots of online games, puzzles and other math-related activities to do with your child from Nick Jr’s Math Acitivity Page. There are also printable coloring pages and activity books for your child.
Teachers
There are so many websites offering resources on math and math-related activities, and we’ve highlighted just a few. So check them out!
Gayle’s Preschool Rainbow has several activities and songs that encourage counting, number recognition, comparison, and listening skills in their Counting and Number Activity Theme section.
There are many Math Activities and Ideas on The Chalkboard! The Preschool Place! that include logical thinking, seriation, measurement, shape, numerals, patterns, and opposities.
Although there are some worksheets highlighted on the page, First School.ws has a Numbers - Math Theme page with lots of math-related ideas and activities, including ideas for numbers, counting, sorting, shapes, sizing, patterns, and coloring.
Preschool by Stormie has a Number, Shapes, and Pre-Math Activities page that includes activities and ideas from various teachers, including Stormie, for number recognition, shapes, counting, sorting, etc.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has online games for children, but they also have a Teacher Resource section that includes 15 sets of resources, activities, rhymes and songs to do with children relating to numbers, time, patterning, counting, length, and volume.
The British Columbia Ministry of Education has an Integrated Resource Package 1996 of Mathematics K to 7 Curriulum with prescribed learning outcomes, suggested instructional strategies, suggested assessment strategies, and recommnended learning resources.. Scroll down to the K-1 section for the startegies related to Numbers, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, and Statistics and Probability.
National Garden Month & National Arbor Day
Besides National Mathematics Education Month, April also includes National Environmental Education Week ( 4/15-4/22/07), Earth Day (4/22/07), National Arbor Day (4/27/07), National Garden Month, and Keep America Beautiful Month. Keeping with the theme of the environment, First School.ws has a number of activities and crafts relating to trees, shapes, science, colors.
In the Indoor Gardening section of Preschoolers Today, there is an article Bring the Fun Inside by Donna Stone that describes ways to grow an indoor garden using common food items, such as potatoes, carrots, orange seeds, bean sprouts and other vegetables.
Castaldo’s Corner Activities, the early childhood section of Education World by Nancy Castaldo has Meet A Tree with ideas and activities to engage children in discovery and learning about trees.
[Posted on March 30, 2007]
