Early Childhood - Big Ideas of Arithmetic

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Early Childhood

How do we inspire young girls and boys to first ‘get it’ and then ‘love it’?”

“How do we foster early conceptual understanding of quantitative reasoning?”

“How do we identify and correct those cognitive deficiencies that widen the math achievement gap?”

“How do we develop students’ enjoyment of numbers?

 

iRi’s Early Childhood Mathematics programs are best suited for teachers who are serious about jumpstarting all students’ math confidence and performance to prepare for the demanding 21st century.

Jumpstart All Students to Learn and Love Mathematics Early. Stimulate cognitive functions for early math success.

Professional Learning

Big Ideas of Arithmetic

Teachers learn how to enable students to transition from seeing concrete examples to understanding core concepts and ultimately applying abstract thinking. Without this cognitive development, students will be unable to exercise the more rigorous quantitative reasoning required in upper grade-level math.

  • Wean students from relying merely on the memorization of concrete facts and formulae by enabling conceptualization and numerical application
  • Strengthen cognitive functions that currently are hindering students’ mathematical success, including reducing impulsive thinking, use of trial and error, egocentric thinking, weak spatial orientation, inability to represent with symbols, and difficulty with recognizing patterns
  • Build key concepts from the NCTM standards: place value, natural numbers, relations, attributes of plane and solid geometric figures, reversible operations, measures of length, topological terms, number relationships, and cardinality
  • Design lessons which incorporate research-sound strategies to teaching core concepts
  • Use iRi’s aRe Assessment Model (Assess, Re-teach, Evaluate) to make accountability easy