Agenda: Numbers Are Primary

Numbers Are Primary, Pre K-2: Teaching Number Sense and Place Value to Young Children

At this session, participants will learn firsthand how to implement new approaches in the classroom to help their students understand the power of number sense and place value development. Time will be spend creating "make and take" activities. Participants will leave feeling confident and eager to engage students with innovative learning techniques.

The Broad Agenda

Explore conservation of number, 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 and take home classroom resources to use with your students
Practice techniques learned

"I have to admit that this workshop was phenomenal!!!... I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend this workshop with my fellow Atlanta Public Schools colleagues. Not only was it insightful and informative, but the presentation of the material covered was creatively done. She [the presenter] allowed us to make many of the activities she discussed. It seems as if both facilitators believe in the educational proverb: 'Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I understand.'"

B. Cummings
Mathematics Instructional Coach
Atlanta Public Schools