Thanks for your interest in Young Children’s Mathematics

Young children’s everyday lives are full of mathematically-related conversation and play—and they enter school ready to make connections with these informal experiences. Young Children’s Mathematics, the newest addition to the Cognitively Guided Instruction family of books, is a companion to Children’s Mathematics that will help teachers recognize opportunities for making these connections.

In this sample from chapters 1 and 2, you’ll read about:

• the authors’ focus on children’s thinking and how it can provide a starting point for growing mathematical understanding
• ideas for starting to observe and consider how young children’s mathematical thinking begins to develop
• a look at some foundational concepts of counting