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How to Teach Math the Short Way
Nature provides babies with millions of neurons for learning math. However, nature depends on parents and families to identify and name...
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The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk?
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tammymsteele
- Jul 17
- 1 min
Everyday Words are Math Words
What do empty, full, same, and different have in common? They are all concepts you can teach using math talk. Learn how to teach your...
tammymsteele
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Jump Start Your Baby’s Math Brain
Children are born with the capacity to understand abstract math ideas like “more.” When you talk about more milk, more applesauce or more...
tammymsteele
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Teach Children That the World is Organized through Math Play
What is Math Talk? Math is more than numbers. It is an abstract way of solving problems. Math uses patterns, measurement, logic and order...
tammymsteele
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Play Teaches Children to Solve Math Problems
Babies’ brains are born to understand big math ideas such as more/no more or same/different. When they play, they use these ideas but...
tammymsteele
- Jul 8
- 1 min
Math is Everywhere
Toddlers play with math ideas, but they need parents to name the concepts.
Tammy M. Steele
- May 19, 2021
- 1 min
Counting on Toe Math
Infants and toddlers love their hands and feet for good reason. They can put socks on their feet and gloves on their hands. They can step...
Tammy M. Steele
- Dec 12, 2020
- 1 min
What Does a Toddler Want Most?
After food and sleep, what a toddler wants most is to be understood. After centuries of believing that infants were born as blank slates,...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Teachers Partner with Parent Literacy Leaders
If children must hear and use a word 24 times before 80% of them can remember it, teachers will need help making sure special words get...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Survival Stories: Words for a Pandemic
If you are a parent of young children, your parents might not have prepared you to grow up with a toolkit for surviving a pandemic. For...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
How to Chat with a Toddler Who Doesn’t Talk
It is possible to have a conversation with a toddler who doesn’t talk, if a mama does just a little ...Read More
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Parents as Literacy Leaders
Conversation Starter #8 Cook It, Eat It, Clean It Up - Ages 1 ½ to 3 years old
Tammy Steele
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
Manly Decisions
Let’s talk about the men in a baby’s life. Clearly all three babies in this photo are totally interested in the two men.
Tammy Steele
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
It Doesn’t Take More Time, It Takes More Words
Question 1: Who is your child’s first teacher?
Question 2: What is a teachable moment?
Tammy Steele
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
What other parents know and do:
Every parent has what it takes to be a brain builder
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 29, 2020
- 1 min
A 2020 New Year’s Wish
Give Our Children the Words They will Need to Save the Planet
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Say-What-You-See in a Photograph
Make-Up-a-Story
A good conversation can be had while looking at a photograph together.
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Start a Conversation with a One-Year-Old
SAY-WHAT-YOU-SEE
Babies understand what we say to them long before they can say a single word.
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
Mama-Says-What-Mama-Sees
Again and Again and Again
Eddie, Why did you stick your head and hands through the hole in that steel beam?
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
Springtime is Time to Say-What-You-See
A visit to the farm in the Lincoln Park Zoo to touch a baby chick is proof that it is springtime in Chicago,
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