Author: Albert Alegre

About the Book: 

This book is aimed at preschool teachers and education students. It explains how to teach math to preschool children in a child-centered, hands-on, adventure-based, fun way. The book offers specific teaching methods for preschool teachers based on play, exploration, and facilitation by adults. It also provides a range of math activities grounded on the children's interests in games, stories, adventures, music and movement, arts and crafts, and explorations of natural phenomena. These methods use developmentally appropriate and scientifically based practices and increase children's attention, exploration, and elaboration. The curriculum proposed follows the NCTM’s curriculum focal points and meets standards of learning for preschool children.   

About the Author: 

Albert Alegre holds a Ph.D. in Human Development from Virginia Tech and is professor of Early Childhood Education at East Stroudsburg University. He was a preschool teacher for many years and has been teaching college students and preschool teachers how to use a constructivist way of teaching mathematics to preschool children for the last ten years. He has published extensively in scientific journals and has also published four books.