Consultation Areas and Topics

1) Numeracy in Early Childhood: Readiness and Proactive Intervention strategies, settings and tasks. Fostering thinking and advancing thinking/flexible thinking.

•Prenumber
•Number and Number Sense
•Spatial and Measurement Sense
•Problem Solving and Games

2) Numeracy: Fostering Conceptual Understanding and Number Sense in the Classroom
3) Fostering Numeracy: Suggestions for Parents
4) Intervention Strategies for Elementary Mathematics
5) Fostering Numeracy/Number Sense - Simple Game Settings

Selected Recent References

Liedtke, W. (Spring 1999). Riddles and Games – Selected Thoughts and Observations. Canadian Children, 24(1), 20-24.

Liedtke, W. (Spring 2000). Fostering Numeracy: Parents of Preschool Children Can Play an Important Role. Canadian Children, 25(1), 10-12.

Liedtke, W. (2000). Aspects of Numeracy in the Primary Years: Selected Challenges for Teachers. delta-K, 38(1), 38-45.

Liedtke, W. and Sales, J. (2001). Writing Tasks That Succeed. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 6(6), 350-355.

Liedtke, W. (Summer 2002). Watch Your (Our) Language. Vector, 43(2), 15-19.