MORE THAN COUNTING STANDARDS EDITION provides preschool and kindergarted teachers with a play-based curriculum - some 124 math activities and game - and is a top pick for any early learning collection. It blends activities from the best-selling MORE THAN COUNTING and MUCH MORE THAN COUNTING, offering teachers keys to teaching kids math skills while meeting content standards. Answers to common teacher problems and information for applying content and process standards make this a winner!

Moomaw (education, U. of Cincinnati) and Hieronymus' (Arlitt Child and Family Research and Education Center, U. of Cincinnati) practical resource text provides a play-based math curriculum for use by early childhood educators. Reflecting early child learning standards form the National Council of Teachers of mathematics, the 124 math activities and games contained in the book include new activities and proven winners from the authors' previous publications, More Than Counting and Much More Than Counting. The text includes an overiew of understanding and pllying mathematics standards for young children, followed by sections on specific standards - number and oberations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability - and a chapter on assessment and planning. Each chapter opens with a section of answers to common teacher questions. No subject index is provided. (Annotation 2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)