Learning Opportunities

Have you wondered how to best teach your preschool or kindergarten students early number concepts? Come and learn the developmental approach to numeracy, using the Instructional Framework in Early Numbers as a guide. This session will provide you an appreciation of early number development, how to determine where your students are at, and Cross-Number puzzles you can use with your class.

Why is this session relevant to teachers?

Why this is an important session: It explains the increasingly popular Math Recovery approach to numeracy intervention and provides a unique and powerful tool for teachers to use with students.

What will be the learning: Development of early numeracy concepts to enable teachers to identify students’ current level and what they need to progress.

Focus: Numeracy concepts.

Takeaway: Familiarity with numeracy development and how to use it to move students forward.
(preschool and kindergarten).

Alberta Curriculum Alignment: Kindergarten (Learning outcomes: Children identify quantity to 10 and Children identify compositions of quantities within 10).

Target Audience

Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers, Math teachers