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Play Counts: Building Staff Capacity to Facilitate Early Math Learning

November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2020 | Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Exhibitions

Marbles Kids Museum will develop tools and strategies to train its staff, volunteers, and interns to engage infants, toddlers, and preschool children in activities and conversations that lay the foundation for critical early math skills. The staff capacity-building project will deepen the museum staff's understanding of early math skills, how to foster those skills, and why investment in early math is critical to long term success in school. With a content coach, the museum will research and develop early math resources, activities, and exhibit enhancements that engage children and their families. Additionally, the museum will seek to understand community needs related to early math learning, and create content for professional development video modules. The museum will modify the professional development modules to create caregiver workshops focused on fostering early math learning through everyday activities and play at home. Museum staff will share tools and lessons learned through a regional museum convening and at national conferences.

Funders

IMLS
Funding Program: Museums for America
Award Number: MA-10-18-0108-18
Funding Amount: $103,817

TEAM MEMBERS

  • REVISE logo
    Principal Investigator
    Marbles Kids Museum
  • Discipline: Mathematics
    Audience: Pre-K Children (0-5) | Parents/Caregivers | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits

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