Infant/Toddler STEAM Series
Explore ways to support STEAM learning for infants and toddlers. In each episode, find an overview of the STEM component and tips for using art to help children explore concepts and skills.
Mathematics Development
Find resources to support preschoolers’ understanding of numbers and quantities, their relationships and operations, shapes and their structure, reasoning, measurement, classification, and patterns.
Mathematics development is a preschooler subdomain of the cognition central domain in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Other ELOF domains include approaches to learning; social and emotional development; language and literacy; and perceptual, motor, and physical development.
Preschool STEAM Series
Discover strategies to support STEAM learning for preschoolers. In each episode, there's an overview of the STEM component and tips for using art to help children explore concepts and skills.
Research on the Go: “M” in STEAM
Stereotypes about who is "good at math" are everywhere. Discover how to help shift the narrative and find strategies for helping even the youngest learners embrace their inner mathematician.
Math Learning Trajectories
Children are learning math every day in Head Start programs across the country. Watch these videos to see how teachers encourage their math development.
Math Learning Trajectories: Sorting
Children are learning math every day in Head Start programs across the country. Watch these videos to see how teachers encourage their sorting skills.
Math Learning Trajectories: Spatial Awareness
Children are learning math every day in Head Start programs across the country. Watch these videos to see how teachers encourage their spatial awareness.
Math Learning Trajectories: Early Number Development
Children are learning math every day in Head Start programs across the country. Watch these videos to see how teachers encourage their early number development.
Finding the Math
Learn more about how to plan math activities in the classroom. Also, share these activities with parents to use at home with their children.