Young Children’s Amazing Math

Explore young children's amazing everyday math. Ginsburg uses words and over 75 short videos to illustrate and explain the widespread development of informal knowledge about number, shape, space, pattern, and measurement. Some videos show individual children, from about 9 months to 6 years, spontaneously engaging in everyday math at home as they eat, construct, sing, read, and more in their normal environments. Other videos show individual children revealing their math thinking and strategies as they talk with an adult. A final video shows a child doing her first kindergarten math homework assignment. Fascinating and often funny, the videos help adults to understand children’s thinking and to foster the joyful development of everyday math, which can provide a foundation for formal math education in kindergarten and beyond. The book also offers many specific math activities designed to promote learning. Everyday math can be a delight for both adults and children. Enjoy it with them!


Book Features:




An account of young children’s everyday math, much of which is widespread across gender, socioeconomic status, and culture.
An exploration of how understanding children’s everyday math can lay the foundation for teaching school math.
The first extensive use of engaging videos to tell “thinking stories” about individual young children engaged in everyday math.
Videos and stories that help adults—including early childhood education students, professional educators, and parents—to understand that math learning can be enjoyable in the early years and beyond.
Numerous activities that teachers, day care providers, and parents can use to promote the development of children’s everyday math.
Available in print with embedded QR codes for video access, as well as hot links in the digital version.