Numbers Are Primary: Teaching Number Sense and Place Value to Young Children

At this workshop, participants will learn firsthand how to implement new approaches in the classroom and will leave feeling confident and eager to engage students with innovative learning techniques that explore conservation of number, subitization, part/whole relationships, compensation, counting on and counting back.

The Broad Agenda:

  • Explore conservation of number, subitization, part/whole relationships, compensation, counting on and counting back
  • Help your students understand the power of number sense and place value development
  • Use the concept of ten
  • Engage in hands-on activities, manipulatives and applicable math games
  • Create and take home classroom resources to use with your students