Jamie Hui, Associate Teacher

Jamie is truly present - closely observing how children interact with materials, recognizing that children have a natural curiosity about math. She understands that mathematics for young children is more than just numbers and rote counting – that it involves logical operations like matching and sorting, arranging by size and dealing with space, time, speed and sequence. Jamie makes mathematics a sense-making process for children, one with everyday relevance. In her classroom, quality mathematics is a joy, not a pressure!  She encourages children to reflect on their play and construct mathematical meanings by asking open-ended questions like, How did you know? What else would work like this? It’s all about challenging children to go beyond what they already know.