“…Moreover, despite the growing emphasis on the integration of mathematics and science in the early years (Beatty, 2005;Berlin & Lee, 2005;Saçkes, Flevares, Gonya, & Trundle, 2012;Tu, 2006), there is little effort to prepare teachers in the practice of effective integration of mathematics and science (Furner & Kumar, 2007;Isaacs, Wagreich, & Gartzman, 1997;Jones, Lake, & Dagli, 2003). Therefore, early childhood teachers devote limited time to science and mathematics instruction in early childhood classrooms (Greenfield et al, 2009;Saçkes, 2012;Saçkes et al, 2011), and they rarely attempt to integrate science and mathematics (Cady & Rearden, 2007;Douville, Pugalee, & Wallace, 2003).…”