PBS SoCal – Stephanie Murray
My preschooler and I were playing with sidewalk chalk. “What color would you like?” she asked. Looking at the choices, I noticed she grouped the chalk by size — small chipped pieces in one pile and larger in another. We rearranged the pieces into patterns and thought of other ways to group, count, and order the chalk. Our afternoon drawing rainbows on the sidewalk became a learning experience simply by noticing the math and talking about it together.
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