Letters to the Editor
Early Math: Net Gain
To the editor,
In his essay “Preschool Math: Why it Adds Up” (TC Today, Spring 2008), TC faculty member Herbert Ginsburg talks about the need to engage preschoolers in learning activities conducive to the development of math skills. Dr. Ginsburg suggests that these activities can even include “teacher-guided projects of complex topics.” His closing statement—“After all, before the Web was invented, no one knew that four-year-olds would be capable of using it”—was actually an opening prompt for me to reflect on the possibilities that even a medium like the Web, which can be thought of as complex for kids at this age level, could be taken advantage of as kids develop early math skills.
As Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at
I recently was trying to take on this challenge by finding videos on the Web that would demonstrate how teachers were using Web technologies for teaching and learning. I found a video on YouTube about Kathy Cassidy, a first grade teacher from
Brenda Lopez Ortiz
Ed.D., Instructional Technology and Media, 2006previous page