EBOOK: Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years

2006-05-16
EBOOK: Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years

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  • Author: Linda Pound
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
  • ISBN: 0335227503
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

Review of the first edition “All the major areas of early childhood maths teaching and learning are covered in this powerful book… The book is also full of delightful stories… [It] would be eminently suitable for beginning and trainee teachers but would also be helpful to all those concerned in early years settings. All the relevant information is here, based on a wealth of knowledge and experience.” TES Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years provides practical guidance for parents, teachers and other early years workers who want to give children a good start in mathematical development. Showing how competent children are as mathematicians from an early age, the book offers an overview of young children’s mathematical behaviour at home and in early years settings. The book defines the content and the learning curriculum required to promote mathematical thinking, including an examination of the relationship between mathematics and language learning, and the role of other cross-curricular aspects such as information and communications technology (ICT). It explores the role of staff in observing, planning for and supporting children’s learning by using a variety of strategies, and makes suggestions for promoting effective partnerships between the parents or principal carers and early years staff. The book also considers the importance of play and imagination to the development of abstract thought. The second edition is comprehensively updated throughout and includes new material on Special Educational Needs, the very early years, the role of play, the role of ICT, and examples of outdoor play. It is essential reading for early years teachers and students, as well as parents who want to understand and develop their children’s early mathematical learning.

Supporting Early Mathematical Development

2010-07-12
Supporting Early Mathematical Development

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  • Author: Caroline McGrath
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136998454
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

This highly topical resource offers a blend of theory and practice that will enable you to deliver successful mathematical education from birth to eight year olds. The book links current practice and fundamental early years principles and makes suggestions for creating effective pedagogies in maths teaching.

Supporting Early Mathematical Development

2023-06-27
Supporting Early Mathematical Development

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  • Author: Caroline McGrath
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781032156279
  • Category : Early childhood education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This book combines theory and practice to enable successful mathematical education for children from birth to twelve years. It considers how students, academics, parents and professionals can develop their mathematical thinking practice whilst acknowledging we will always be practising the craft of teaching mathematics.

Teaching Mathematics Through Story

2014-06-27
Teaching Mathematics Through Story

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  • Author: Caroline McGrath
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136598634
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184

How do you make mathematics relevant and exciting to young children? How can mathematics and literacy be combined in a meaningful way? How can stories inspire the teaching and learning of mathematics? This book explores the exciting ways in which story can be used as a flexible resource to facilitate children’s mathematical thinking. It looks at the potential relationship between story and mathematics and practically demonstrates how they can be combined to help children connect, understand and express mathematical ideas using story language. Written for all early years practitioners and students, the book offers a playful pedagogical approach to facilitating children’s mathematical thinking which brings a creative satisfaction and confidence to teaching mathematics. Encouraging a creative approach to teaching mathematics that draws on picture books and oral mathematical stories, the book shows you how to: Move from reading to telling stories with mathematical themes Encourage children to pose and solve problems by playing with the plot of stories Enable children to translate abstract mathematical ideas to concrete representations with supporting story props and puppets Create original oral mathematical stories alongside children Capture children’s mathematical thinking in an observational framework, supported with audio or video recordings which can be shared with parents and colleagues There are free audio recordings of children and adults telling oral mathematical stories, which feature in the book. These can be downloaded from: www.routledge.com/9780415688154 This book draws on practical work with children, educators, parents, professional storytellers, and trainee practitioners, who bring theoretical ideas to life and offer insight into their mathematical story experiences. It is a ‘must have’ for all those who want to make mathematics relevant, accessible and imaginative for young children.

Contemporary Research and Perspectives on Early Childhood Mathematics Education

2018-02-21
Contemporary Research and Perspectives on Early Childhood Mathematics Education

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  • Author: Iliada Elia
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319734326
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

This book brings together a collection of research-based papers on current issues in early childhood mathematics education that were presented in the Topic Study Group 1 (TSG 1) at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), held at the University of Hamburg in 2016. It will help readers understand a range of key issues that early childhood mathematics educators encounter today. Research on early childhood mathematics education has grown in recent years, due in part to the well-documented, positive relation between children’s early mathematical knowledge and their later mathematics learning, and to the considerable emphasis many countries are now placing on preschool education. The book addresses a number of central questions, including: What is mathematical structural development and how can we promote it in early childhood? How can multimodality and embodiment contribute to early mathematics learning and to acquiring a better understanding of young children’s mathematical development? How can children’s informal mathematics-related experiences affect instruction and children’s learning in different mathematics content areas? What is the role of tools, including technology and picture books, in supporting early mathematics learning? What are the challenges in early childhood mathematics education for teachers’ education and professional development?

Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning

2013-05-09
Reconceptualizing Early Mathematics Learning

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  • Author: Lyn D. English
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9400764405
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 329

This book emanated primarily from concerns that the mathematical capabilities of young children continue to receive inadequate attention in both the research and instructional arenas. Research over many years has revealed that young children have sophisticated mathematical minds and a natural eagerness to engage in a range of mathematical activities. As the chapters in this book attest, current research is showing that young children are developing complex mathematical knowledge and abstract reasoning a good deal earlier than previously thought. A range of studies in prior to school and early school settings indicate that young learners do possess cognitive capacities which, with appropriately designed and implemented learning experiences, can enable forms of reasoning not typically seen in the early years. Although there is a large and coherent body of research on individual content domains such as counting and arithmetic, there have been remarkably few studies that have attempted to describe characteristics of structural development in young students’ mathematics. Collectively, the chapters highlight the importance of providing more exciting, relevant, and challenging 21st century mathematics learning for our young students. The chapters provide a broad scope in their topics and approaches to advancing young children’s mathematical learning. They incorporate studies that highlight the importance of pattern and structure across the curriculum, studies that target particular content such as statistics, early algebra, and beginning number, and studies that consider how technology and other tools can facilitate early mathematical development. Reconceptualising the professional learning of teachers in promoting young children’s mathematics, including a consideration of the role of play, is also addressed.

How to Develop Confident Mathematicians in the Early Years

2018-10-09
How to Develop Confident Mathematicians in the Early Years

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  • Author: Tony Cotton
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351812548
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

Showing how everyday experiences can be used to encourage early mathematical thinking, this book will help you to support young children’s mathematical development through play. Developing Confident Mathematicians in the Early Years explains clearly the stages of mathematical development from birth to five years. It considers how practitioners and parents can create a mathematically rich environment and offers a wealth of practical activities and suggestions for adult–child interactions to enhance children’s mathematical learning. Features include: 60 activities, each covering a core area of mathematical experience – measurement, algebra, data handling, counting and calculation clear explanations of the mathematics taking place in each activity and how this forms the foundation for mathematical learning in the future practical suggestions for home learning and working in partnership with parents links to the EYFS and National Curriculum. Offering a rich source of ideas using everyday resources, this practical text will inspire practitioners and parents to nurture young children’s innate confidence and ability in mathematics.

Thinking and Learning About Mathematics in the Early Years

2008-03-20
Thinking and Learning About Mathematics in the Early Years

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  • Author: Linda Pound
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134082282
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

How can early years practitioners help young children to become not only numerate but aspiring mathematicians who love numbers, shapes and mathematical comparisons? The introduction of the Foundation Stage has led to practitioners seeking ways to teach maths which are more in line with the creative and playful ways young children learn other subjects. Linda Pound draws on current thinking about children's mathematical development to show how you can encourage and enhance the numeracy skills of any child in the early years by linking maths to every-day life situations and making it a playful and enjoyable cross-curricular activity. This highly practical and engaging text includes chapters on: why maths is often seen as 'hard' and what practitioners can do to help young children be more successful exploring shapes, space, measures and patterns how to make maths more fun and playful, using games, humour, stories and rhymes using music and dance to enhance mathematical understanding encouraging children to see the connection between maths and everyday experiences through, for example sorting, matching and guessing creating an environment for mathematical development, indoors and out Concluding with a chapter on how practitioners and parents can become more confident in their use of maths, this user-friendly text, packed full of ideas, is essential reading for practitioners in any early years setting. Students on Early Education courses will also find much here to inspire them.

Engaging Families as Children's First Mathematics Educators

2016-11-21
Engaging Families as Children's First Mathematics Educators

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  • Author: Sivanes Phillipson
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9811025533
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

This book explores how professionals can engage and inspire parents to support their young children’s mathematics learning. Bringing together international experts, researchers and scholars, it proposes a framework for engaging with and supporting parents, including those who are less aware of the crucial development of children’s mathematical skills in the early years. Focusing on mathematics learning from birth to 5 years, the book’s underlying assumption is that it is possible to offer guidance to professionals working with families with young children concerning how to engage and support families in the area of mathematics learning, including those families who seem alienated from education services. Specifically, the respective chapters present a framework for understanding children’s early mathematical development and the important role of families in this regard. They describe effective strategies for engaging families in their children’s mathematics learning, including those who are marginalised and experience multiple disadvantages, so that all families can best support their children’s mathematical learning and their development of positive attitudes towards learning. In closing, hurdles and opportunities within the systems surrounding family engagement are addressed.

Children Are Born Mathematicians

2015-10-08
Children Are Born Mathematicians

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  • Author: Eugene Geist
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (Us)
  • ISBN: 9780132081672
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 416

Developed to address the new NCTM focal points, which use a chronological approach to thinking about what should be taught in early childhood mathematics. The book views mathematics as a developmental and constructive process in which the teacher acts as an instructor and facilitator. The book takes a "3 E" approach to thinking about how math is presented to each age group. For infants and toddlers, best introduced and presented through interaction with the environment so designing a mathematically active and interactive classroom should be the focus. For Preschool and Kindergarten children, mathematics is best learned through experiences with materials or projects in the classroom. For grade school children, more traditional educational experiences become more developmentally appropriate in combination with environment and experience.The approach is to see math as a developmental process that children engage in as they grow and develop. The teacher's role is to promote concept understanding and development through active experiences and questioning techniques in combination with teaching skills in developmentally appropriate ways."