As educators and family members, we try to incorporate early math into our children's activities and relate math to their everyday experiences in many ways. And, we try to make it fun! We use a variety of manipulatives for hands-on experience in counting, sorting, comparing, and patterning; sing counting songs; count by ones, twos, fives, and tens; encourage one-to-one correspondence when passing out snacks; divide things into equal parts; count how many items we have left or how many items in all; measure with nonstandard and standard units; explore 2-D and 3-D shapes and symmetry; use positional words to describe location; learn about the likelihood or probability of events; tell time through the sequence of events, time of day, time of year, and time shown on a clock; try different kinds of graphs; and, we use mathematical language as the children discover that math is all around us.
At Abrams, our early math materials are based on testing in real classrooms and in-depth research. The standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics guide our decisions as we strive to offer teachers and parents only those educational materials that are age-appropriate and valuable to a child's understanding in the early- childhood setting and the elementary school setting.
Teachers’ Choice
Award 2007
Abrams Math Readers
Abrams Math Readers™ (Sets 1, 2, and 3) are leveled math readers that develop and reinforce early math skills. These books are winners of the Learning® Magazine Teachers’ Choice Award for 2007.
Big Book Math™ (Set 1 and Set 2) begins with the preschool child in mind and advances through grade 2. To provide for ELL students (English Language Learners), both sets are also available in Spanish. Our Family Lending Library makes that all important home-school connection, so families can reinforce math learning and extend it beyond the end of the school day; the Lending Library for Big Book Math, Set 1, is also available in Spanish.
The Number People™ provide another fabulous way to enrich a child’s growing math experience.