Teacher Tips: Managing Math Manipulatives
Early Childhood Today | 10/1999
In this Teacher Tip, Miller discusses managing manipulitaves - small pieces and their containers.

Teaching With Technology: Computers Made For Math
Early Childhood Today | 10/1999
Great Math Software and related websites are previewed by Buckleitner.

Send-Home Activities: Ideas to Help Families Support Abstract Thinking
Early Childhood Today | 3/2004
Clements and Sarama describe how to help children develop abstract-thinking skills through classroom math activities. For more information, see the related main article, Building Abstract Thinking Through Math, linked to this page.

Problem Solving in Action
Early Childhood Today
Toddlers imitate what they see, preschoolers try hands-on trial and error, and kindergartners tap language and abstract thinking skills to solve problems.

Ages & Stages: Helping Children Develop Logic & Reasoning Skills
Early Childhood Today | 1/2003
By carefully planning classroom experiences, one can help children develop logic and reasoning skills that they can use to make sense of their world. Children need to go through many illogical thinking processes before they can even begin to make logical sense of their world.

The Geometric World of Young Children
Early Childhood Today
Geometry is one of the most natural and fun areas of mathematics to develop with young children. Clements suggests some ways in which educators can integrate geometry into early childhood classrooms. For more information about exploring math through manipulatives and shapes, see the sub-articles "Getting in Shape" and "What Children Already Know."

Send-Home Activities: Ideas for Encouraging Math and Science Experiences
Early Childhood Today | 1/2006
In today's early childhood programs, there is a growing emphasis on skill-building. Families can become willing partners in providing developmentally appropriate math and science experiences at home. Read up on ways to partner with families.

Ages & Stages: Figuring it Out
Early Childhood Today
Describes how toddlers through kindergardens approach learning about and understanding the world around them. Toddlers imitate, preschoolers learn hands-on, and kindergardners problem solve.

Ages & Stages: How Children Learn to Solve Problems
Early Childhood Today | 10/2004
By encouraging children's explorations and supporting their efforts to resolve difficulties, children 0 to 6 learn to be very effective problem solvers.

Early Math: How Children Problem Solve
Early Childhood Today | 5/2007
Young children have the ability to become powerful problem solvers. If teachers recognize the strategies children use to solve problems, then they can help them become even better thinkers. To this end, Sarama and Clements discuss problem-solving strategies in the classroom.

Group Time: Taking Problem Solving Outdoors!
Early Childhood Today | 4/1999
Problem-solving happenes anywhere, includong outdoor activities.

Creative Pathways To Math
Early Childhood Today | 1/2003
Children build mathematical competencies from their first year and keep on learning throughout their preschool years and beyond. Instruction should build upon and extend children's daily activities, interests, and questions, bringing the mathematics in such activities to the fore. For more information, see the related sub-articles, Math "10 Creative Ways To Teach Math", and the Developmental Chart "Development of Mathematical Concepts" linked to the main article page.