Design creates the deep understanding, creativity, connections, agency, and spirit essential to the study of mathematics for all the years to come.
I prefer to offer design materials with either a black background (black magnetic board, black construction paper or black felt) or, if transparent, a light table or overhead projector.
Topics Ahead
Here’s a choice for you. One way to proceed is to go now to the next topic in the big navigation window Leadership, because that topic builds off of Design Materials you have just seen. I recommend, however, that you continue to follow my sequence through the big bottom links. That will take you through the other materials and the planning overview. Once the entirety of the environment structure is in mind, then I address facilitation. At that point Leadership in Workstations appears.
Writing Materials adds pencil control, scissors, and writing numeral practice.
Mathematics Materials shares the advanced materials in number, sorting and classifying, and measurement for five- and six-year-old children, bridging to first grade.