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Jody Guarino; Chepina Rumsey; Sue Kim; Becky Holden – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
The same and different routine offers an opportunity to build a strong foundation for future grades while also deepening the experiences of prekindergarten and transitional kindergarten students. Students have opportunities to make sense, share ideas, and engage in the ideas of others. We conjecture this type of experience supports students and…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Communication Skills
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Bofferding, Laura; Zhu, Yi – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Having students solve shape puzzles, such as with pattern blocks or tangrams, is a popular way to encourage students to compose shapes in different ways and talk about the effects of different compositions (Clements et al., 2004; Clements & Sarama, 2009; Sales, 1994), meeting Common Core geometry standards in kindergarten through second grade…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Puzzles, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
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MacDonald, Beth L.; Moss, Diana L.; Hunt, Jessica H. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
In this article, the authors share how gameplay with dominoes can leverage students' quantitative reasoning to promote number development and additive reasoning. This article explores three domino games (Basic Dominoes, Just Before/Just After, and Ten Train), and considers the following: (1) rules and details; (2) students' subitizing and unit…
Descriptors: Games, Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Numeracy