Children\'s Mathematics

Outside The outside environment in a setting can promote children’s marks just as much as inside. Here they can have the space a ...

Conclusion We have shown the importance of giving children daily opportunities for child-ini- tiated play and learning. Well pla ...

University lecturers, researchers, advisers and even head teachers can forget all too easily what it is like to be a classroom t ...

people. We added plastic, cut out cardboard and shiny paper numerals to the writing area, as well as decorations for the birthda ...

Evaluation The birthday card area showed children at different stages of their knowledge of birthday cards. Some of the children ...

for example, after three, four was chosen because some of the children were four. Toby, 3:9, chose number eight because that was ...

Evaluation Usually number lines are hardly noticed by children but I believe this one was popular because the children had owner ...

He has begun to recognise the power of abstract symbols in conveying meaning in a concise, visual (abstract) form. Mark does not ...

Figure 9.3 Carl’s delivery note and parking tickets Mathematical mark-making through play Carl ‘read’ what he had written on the ...

Sam Here’s some more money from the bank! Sam gave me a handful of coins. Carl This one’s £10. I agreed to buy this cheaper car ...

a Positive Contribution and Achieving Economic Well-being’ are the goal for every child. In these centres nursery education is p ...

mark-making implements beside a long shallow sand tray for the children to experiment with mark-making clipboards and pencils t ...

Be aware that the dynamic form cannot be modelled as this is the child’s own and very spontaneous. Children represent their thi ...

movement through the air from one point to the other. One child who had up until then shown reluctance in taking part in group a ...

Young children think division THE MATHEMATICS problem-solving division by sharing AGE 4 and 5 years CONTEXT whole class and grou ...

the same response on paper. Every child was willing to discuss their ideas. A variety of responses Harry, 5:4, remembered the tw ...

Charlene, 4:10, made sense of this task by focusing on the writing and naming of numerals (see Figure 9.5b). She chose to write ...

mark. He put a tick to show that eight could be shared. On the second paper he drew two faces depicting two people at a bowling ...

favourites and, armed with clipboards, they circulated among their friends checking one another’s preference. In the two example ...

Figure 9.7 The zoo – data handling 9.7a Bianca 9.7b Tommy 8657part 2.qxd 04/07/2006 17:30 Page 179 ...