Numbers Are Primary, K-2

Numbers Are Primary: Teaching Number Sense and Place Value to Young Children

Important research recently identified improved ways of teaching number sense and place value to young children. Exemplars early numbers session, for grades Pre K-2, is designed to help teachers understand these new findings and how they relate to addition and subtraction. Workshop participants will learn firsthand how to implement new approaches in the classroom and leave feeling confident and eager to engage students with innovative learning techniques.

The Broad Agenda

Explore the conservation of numbers, subitization, part/whole relationships, compensation, counting on and counting back
Help your students understand the power of number sense and place value development
Use the concept of ten
Engage in hands-on activities, manipulatives and applicable math games
Create resources to use with students
Practice techniques learned

"Using the information Deb taught us and the rubric, we set about scoring problems. The more we did, the more we wanted to do! Who would have thought that sitting for two days in a windowless room could be so wonderful. The time flew!"

B. Renoux,
Multiage Teacher