I was a K-2 teacher before staying home when my son was born and I LOVED teaching math. My absolute favorite resource to recommend is two books by mathematician Christopher Danielson. He’s not a teacher or a homeschool dad, just a mathematician who was really disappointed in his kids early math education. The books are “How Many?” and “Which one doesn’t belong?”. The first is a counting book unlike most. It’s these complex and interesting pictures with only the question prompt “How many?” because there is no one obvious thing to count, it naturally teaches the importance of unit. 3 is correct if you’re counting eggs but 5 is correct if you’re counting avocados. This really is a counting book that goes beyond the pre-K stage because it introduces interesting concepts like avocados cut in half or eggs with some empty shells and some whole. Great for early understanding of fractions. Perfect for any child in that K-2 range. The second book has each page divided into 4 quadrants with an interesting shape in each and the question “Which one doesn’t belong?” on each page. This focuses children’s attention to attributes of shapes. You won’t see any cylinders or rectangles or common shapes like those with a name we know. They’re interesting and irregular and most importantly each page has as many answers as you can make an argument for. The top left quadrant doesn’t belong because it’s an open shape and the others are closed. The bottom right doesn’t belong because it has a curved side and the others have all straight. Christopher Danielson also sells interesting math manipulatives (non-traditional) on his website and does a cool “summer of math” box that you can get. He’s all about playing with math and numbers and patterns. If you can’t tell I’m a super fan! Lol
I haven't heard of this author before, thanks so much for the recommendation! Those books sound awesome--truly encouraging mathematical thinking and getting outside the box.
I think you would LOVE the series Storytelling Math. Women authors of diverse backgrounds wrote a bunch of picture books that highlight math concepts and also aim to show kids that anyone can be a mathematician, especially girls who are from historically marginalized communities . There are a bunch of them available in Spanish, too! ❤️ "Luna's Yum Yum Dim Sum," "Usha and the Digger" and Lia Y Luis were favorites over here!
My older kids love their math blocks but they don’t like their friends knowing they still use them!!! My youngest uses Aussie play money!!! We don’t have counters but use different small toys and base ten unit blocks as counters!!! We love our 150 hundred charts, ours are in our math binders!!! We love math with confidence!!! Nothing wrong with planting seeds!!!
My daughter is 5 years old and we have a 100 numbers chart on the wall and she figured out at 4 how to count from 1 to 100, she immediately understood the logic. Another way we use it is this: a year ago she still couldn't understand how age looks. She would say a person is older based on their height and for her, tall people were 10 years old 😅, so I printed some little pics of the members of the family and put them in the corresponding age number, that way she can see how old is everyone and she can move her own pic on her birthday. I think it's a very helpful way to apply Math in everyday life. And by the way, this year we began Math U see Primer and she just loves it!
Printing pictures of family members and placing them on the number of their age is such a great idea! And I had no idea that other kids were out there making "cakes" out of Math U See manipulatives!
I was a K-2 teacher before staying home when my son was born and I LOVED teaching math. My absolute favorite resource to recommend is two books by mathematician Christopher Danielson. He’s not a teacher or a homeschool dad, just a mathematician who was really disappointed in his kids early math education. The books are “How Many?” and “Which one doesn’t belong?”.
The first is a counting book unlike most. It’s these complex and interesting pictures with only the question prompt “How many?” because there is no one obvious thing to count, it naturally teaches the importance of unit. 3 is correct if you’re counting eggs but 5 is correct if you’re counting avocados. This really is a counting book that goes beyond the pre-K stage because it introduces interesting concepts like avocados cut in half or eggs with some empty shells and some whole. Great for early understanding of fractions. Perfect for any child in that K-2 range.
The second book has each page divided into 4 quadrants with an interesting shape in each and the question “Which one doesn’t belong?” on each page. This focuses children’s attention to attributes of shapes. You won’t see any cylinders or rectangles or common shapes like those with a name we know. They’re interesting and irregular and most importantly each page has as many answers as you can make an argument for. The top left quadrant doesn’t belong because it’s an open shape and the others are closed. The bottom right doesn’t belong because it has a curved side and the others have all straight.
Christopher Danielson also sells interesting math manipulatives (non-traditional) on his website and does a cool “summer of math” box that you can get. He’s all about playing with math and numbers and patterns.
If you can’t tell I’m a super fan! Lol
I haven't heard of this author before, thanks so much for the recommendation! Those books sound awesome--truly encouraging mathematical thinking and getting outside the box.
@@SevenInAll I second this recommendation! His blog Overthinking My Teaching has sent me on many fascinating geeky rabbit trails.
Kate Snow’s Subtraction Facts That Stick is a big hit with my son. As well as The Good and The Beautiful Musical Multiplication songs.
Songs are so helpful for memorization!
Numberblocks is wonderful! Alphablocks is great too.
We've seen some of the episodes where the Numberblocks and Alphablocks meet, those are fun!
The Sir Conference series is great for middle grade geometry. So fun!
I've heard of the series but have never been able to get my hands on it 'in real life' yet! :) Hopefully when my boys are older!
I still use the visual of Lady Diameter and the little son Radius to remember which term is which 😂
I love all these resources!! Thank you for this video!
You're so welcome!
Excellent video!! I’ve been stuck overthinking about switching my math resources this year. Your video was very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
I think you would LOVE the series Storytelling Math. Women authors of diverse backgrounds wrote a bunch of picture books that highlight math concepts and also aim to show kids that anyone can be a mathematician, especially girls who are from historically marginalized communities . There are a bunch of them available in Spanish, too! ❤️ "Luna's Yum Yum Dim Sum," "Usha and the Digger" and Lia Y Luis were favorites over here!
I have heard of the series but haven't been able to get my hands on any of the titles yet!
My older kids love their math blocks but they don’t like their friends knowing they still use them!!! My youngest uses Aussie play money!!! We don’t have counters but use different small toys and base ten unit blocks as counters!!! We love our 150 hundred charts, ours are in our math binders!!! We love math with confidence!!! Nothing wrong with planting seeds!!!
Counters and hands-on blocks can be useful and fun for many years!
My daughter is 5 years old and we have a 100 numbers chart on the wall and she figured out at 4 how to count from 1 to 100, she immediately understood the logic.
Another way we use it is this: a year ago she still couldn't understand how age looks. She would say a person is older based on their height and for her, tall people were 10 years old 😅, so I printed some little pics of the members of the family and put them in the corresponding age number, that way she can see how old is everyone and she can move her own pic on her birthday. I think it's a very helpful way to apply Math in everyday life.
And by the way, this year we began Math U see Primer and she just loves it!
And my daughter also uses the Math U see manipulatives for playing and making cakes 😂.
Printing pictures of family members and placing them on the number of their age is such a great idea! And I had no idea that other kids were out there making "cakes" out of Math U See manipulatives!
I don't see the links for the math cards game?
It's called the "Tiny Polka Dot Game" - one of the links in my description.
Thank you!