Engage in the excitement of early science learning with your preschoolers! Explore the 11 science learning apps and dozens of hands-on activities. Use the digital Teacher’s Guide to implement the technology-based science curriculum into preschool classrooms. Family Science Fun provides ways to support and reinforce learning at home.
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Share the joy of early math learning with your preschoolers! Play the 11 math learning apps and dozens of hands-on activities at home or in the classroom. A digital Teacher’s Guide supports use in the classroom, and Family Math Fun provides activities to do at home.
Subitizing
Equipartitioning
Spatial Thinking
Data Collection & Analysis
Early Math with Gracie & Friends® is a math curriculum supplement based on research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation. The full suite includes apps and activities that were designed and tested for preschool classroom and home use.
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They are learning language. They are learning sharing. They have to learn to work together. It’s opened up so much for them. I can’t even express how amazing this program is. As a teacher, I would recommend it to anyone. I mean, this has changed me. This has changed my kids.
– Melisa Perez, preschool teacher for 16 years
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This website includes materials based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-1119118, Grant No. DRL-1316550, Grant No. DRL-1813280, Grant No. DRL-1933698, and Grant No. DRL-2048883. This website’s contents, including any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in its materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Additional funding support generously provided by the Heising-Simons Foundation.
