Mathematical Expression

Math is beautiful, just like art! The children continue to explore different shapes in the classroom. Below are just a small sample of the many beautiful designs the children created over the past few weeks.

As the children work together, they use math language. They name the shapes (square, diamond, triangle, trapezoid, etc). They also talk to each other using placement language (above, beside, below, under, etc). We talk about the characteristics of the shapes (length, size, sides, corners, etc).

This is an example of how we use materials instead of traditional worksheets to teach and model early math skills in our classroom.