Math at Their Own Pace: Child-Directed Activities for Developing Early Number Sense

Many teachers don’t know how to design child-directed math activities and often wind up relying on teacher-directed activities that emphasize memorization.

Greg Nelson provides pre-designed, child-centered activities that engage and challenge students to learn math at their own level. Teachers place these easy-to-construct, inexpensive activities “on the shelf” for children to use when they are developmentally ready and interested.

Child-directed, developmentally appropriate math activities preschoolers can pull "off the shelf" when ready and interested.

Greg Nelson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He has been a lead teacher at a Montessori preschool and serves on a number of math education committees.