This session introduces Gemstone Numbers, an innovative, intuitive color-value system rooted in research. It builds a deep conceptual understanding of base-ten and place value. See how it is integrated in real classrooms, learn to implement it, and walk away with your own teaching starter set!
In this session, participants will explore how preschool and kindergarten students enumerate and represent different arrangements for six when engaged with subitizing. We will discuss how their counting, estimating, subitizing, structuring, and groupitizing explain their number development.
Discover how Cuisenaire rods can make math concepts more concrete and visual for your students. This hands-on interactive session explores many uses of the rods, from basic decomposition of 5 up to working with fractions, highlighting the versatility and impact of these tools in your classroom.
Help young learners fall in love with math by building joyful, resilient classrooms. Explore how teacher language, routines, and instructional choices foster confidence, curiosity, perseverance, risk-taking, and positive mathematical identities in early learning.
A key component of fluency is students’ ability to be flexible with numbers. Students' ability to decompose numbers builds number sense and fluency. Join me as we talk about why decomposing is so important and explore fun activities that help students practice this important skill.
