Teaching Math to Young Children: Working with Students Individually or in Small Groups
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In this one-day workshop for paraprofessionals, participants will review mathematical problems that are useful for building on young children´s counting abilities to learn the concepts of addition and subtraction. This program shows paraprofessionals how to use word problems to help students move from basic counting strategies, to the use of derived facts, to fluency. Young children become fluent in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through repeated opportunities to solve carefully constructed problems that build on their intuitive knowledge of math. Videos of children solving problems will be used. Activities that can be used as supportive interventions for students who are struggling and why may not have developed basic number sense will be utilized.
Facilitators: Theron Blakeslee, IISD mathematics consultant and Don Green, Holt Public Schools mathematics coordinator.
Audience: paraprofessionals
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