It focuses on concrete activities and games that involve handling and manipulating objects and discusses the characteristics of hands-on learners, particularly those with Down syndrome; teaching strategies; assessing basic math skills and beginning lessons; standards-based math learning; and skills related to
prenumber concepts, number sense, recognizing and writing numerals, counting, whole number addition and subtraction, and money.
The DMA helps classroom teachers make important instructional decisions through guided procedures to assess student progress in current standards in
prenumber concepts, number concepts, operations, and other foundational math concepts.
This article discusses sorting and classification factors, materials, and strategies that are helpful to individuals working with or developing curricula for young children in the
prenumber area of sorting and classifying.
"Number or
Prenumber Foundational Experiences for Young Children: Must We Choose?" Arithmetic Teacher 31(3) (November 1983): 34-37.
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Prenumber invoices and checks for ease of tracking.
Clearly, these two constructs are inter-related, but the content of algebraic thinking involves more explicit links to students' knowledge of
prenumber and arithmetic ideas.
Mother Goose can be used in the primary grades to help students develop a deeper understanding of
prenumber and number concepts.
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Prenumber and account for purchase orders and reports
Use
prenumbered purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and receiving reports.
These
prenumbered slips were folded and shuffled in a box and opened for each neonate to decide the intervention.
Using a sterile cotton-tipped swab, a sample of fluid was obtained from the posterior vaginal fornix and rolled onto a
prenumbered clean glass slide.