Kindergarten Math Concepts

A unique blend of age-appropriate tracing and writing activities are combined with puzzles to make learning fun while helping kindergarteners build early math skills and develop lifelong learning confidence. Identifying numbers, skip counting, and understanding basic addition and subtraction are important steps toward math readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose® into these essential learning activities. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Math Concepts exposes kindergarteners to math through numbers practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities.

Tracing and writing activities combine with puzzles to make learning fun while helping kindergarteners build letter recognition and develop lifelong learning confidence. Word recognition is an important step toward reading readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose® into this essential learning activity. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Reading exposes kindergarteners to early reading concepts through alphabet, rhyming, and tracing practice with the fun of puzzles and other activities.

A unique blend of age-appropriate tracing and writing activities are combined with puzzles to make learning fun while helping kindergarteners build alphabet and handwriting skills and develop lifelong learning confidence. Identifying letters and learning to write letters and words are important steps toward reading readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose® into these essential learning activities. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Writing exposes kindergarteners to letters and words through tracing and writing practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities, including Hidden Pictures® puzzles and mazes.

Through an exciting multimedia format, Teaching Preschool and Kindergarten Math takes you into an early childhood classroom for a seeing is believing look at how to create a focused, successful mathematics program while simultaneously deepening your knowledge of the mathematical ideas that need to be developed at an early age. You’ll find: * 26 video segments filmed in an actual classroom; * more than 150 lessons and investigations; * dozens of ideas for encouraging and supporting math talk with young children; * numerous formative assessment recommendations including videos of one-on-one interviews; * research-based strategies and insights to student misconceptions; * reproducibles (also available in a downloadable, printable format at www.mathsolutions.com/teachingpreschoolreproducibles), and more. The demands of the Common Core State Standards require students to have a stronger grounding in math concepts early on. In addition, research indicates that mastery of math concepts in early childhood is the most powerful predictor of later learning. These factors and more make Teaching Preschool and Kindergarten Math an essential go-to resource for the teaching and learning of early childhood mathematics.

"Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics Common Core Edition helps kindergarten students build a strong foundation in mathematics through fun-filled lessons and activities. ...updated to align with the Common Core State Standards"--Cover, p. [4].

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