Intentionally Infusing Math Thinking Into Play

The session, Math Early Learning Continuum Session 3: Intentionally Infusing Math Thinking Into Play, was presented online on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.  This online session was presented by Heather Wark (Lakehead University), Jenn Gardiner RECE, Mary Lynn Anderson and Ben Hazzard (LKDSB).

The continua referenced are based on the work by Dr. Alex Lawson, Lakehead University

Here is a download of the slide deck from the presentation.

Children should learn their number facts. However, they would benefit from learning these facts by using an increasingly sophisticated series of strategies rather than by jumping directly to memorization.

- (Lawson, 2016, p. 4)

Strategies help students find an answer even if they forget what was memorized. Discussing math fact strategies focuses attention on number sense, operations, patterns, properties, and other critical number concepts.
- (O’Connell & SanGiovanni, 2011, p. 5)