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Kari N. Jurgenson; Ashley R. Delaney – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
The Three Little Pigs launched a lesson in which kindergarten students were challenged with designing a house out of materials such as marshmallows and toothpicks that could withstand the Big Bad Wolf. Students engaged in the engineering design process and geometry standards while building and testing their models.
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Engineering, Design, Geometry
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van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; van den Boogaard, Sylvia; Doig, Brian – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2009
In this article we describe our experiences using picture books to provide young children (five- to six-year-olds) with a learning environment where they can explore and extend preliminary notions of mathematics-related concepts, without being taught these concepts explicitly. We gained these experiences in the PICO-ma project, which aimed to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Picture Books, Young Children, Mathematical Concepts
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Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Nicol, Cynthia, Ed.; Oesterie, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
The theme of the 38th meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 38) and the 36th meeting of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 36) was "Mathematics Education at the Edge." Academically, the theme provides opportunities to highlight and examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Educational Research