Fostering Math Learning

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Giving early childhood educators tools to foster math learning in 3- and 4-year-olds’ everyday activities is the aim of Math Early On. During the two-year pilot project, UNL researchers are devising and assessing professional development activities for preschool teachers at three Educare schools in Lincoln and Omaha, Neb. Read more about this and other University of Nebraska-Lincoln research in the 2013-2014 UNL Research Report. See Fostering Early Math Learning: http://research.unl.edu/annualreport/2014/fostering-early-math-learning/

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[00:00:01.835]A family carnival at an Educare preschool provides opportunities for children and their families to have fun with math.
[00:00:09.043]One, two, three…
[00:00:11.835]Educare is a research based network of schools serving at risk children.
[00:00:16.371]It's the ideal partner for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Math Early On.
[00:00:22.403]With a grant from The Buffett Early Childhood Fund, the program aims to help children develop the skills they need later on to succeed in math.
[00:00:31.474]We're really trying to help teachers understand what goes into mathematical understanding,
[00:00:37.979]help them become more sophisticated in the way in which they diagnose where a child's at.
[00:00:45.547]And then have strategies and ideas for helping a child move forward.
[00:00:51.483]Math Early On provides professional development for teachers.
[00:00:55.787]Which one's the biggest number?
[00:00:57.771]It's just been a great way to expand our knowledge of math.
[00:01:01.011]I think as early childhood teachers you aren't always comfortable with math and so you know having that training makes you more comfortable with it.
[00:01:07.851]Research using a variety of methods will provide information on how well strategies work to help students succeed.
[00:01:16.139]We want to get quantitative data that might show how the changes, what changes take place.
[00:01:22.507]But if we don't get a lot of photos and stories and rich interviews, then we don't really know why it happened.
[00:01:30.315]And so we like to do a kind of mix of our gathering of evidence.
[00:01:36.451]Ten plus eight….
[00:01:38.138]Math Early On builds on insights learned through a similar UNL program at the kindergarten through third grade level.
[00:01:45.051]For preschool and very young children, it's really trying to maximize opportunities to think about mathematical ideas in the every day environment.
[00:01:57.539]But the goal is also to develop a professional development model that's understandable and acceptable to teachers
[00:02:04.275]in not only Educare but other early childhood settings so we can make it more broadly available.
[00:02:10.987]With solid research findings behind it, Math Early On could become a model for the early childhood classroom across the nation.
[00:02:19.363]A program that just adds up.

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