Children\'s Mathematics

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In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s poignant tale he writes: Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, call ...

In the spirit of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s internationally known and deeply moving fable, we have written this book to help ‘th ...

of numerals and established some pathways that led to early calculations on paper. This development did not reveal itself to us ...

see a child make marks on the sandy ground outside, even in play. Teaching in primary schools was of a very similar style, altho ...

significance of meaningful contexts for mathematics and emphasize the need to pre- serve meaning within classroom contexts. Nune ...

tic references made to children’s informal understandings, these are not central to curriculum design’ (Zevenbergen, 2002, p. 4) ...

From our research we found that children’s personal explorations indicate that by the time they are tackling calculations and si ...

Our questionnaire focused on two key aspects. We asked: Do you give children worksheets for mathematics? Do you give children b ...

matics scheme’ (Millet and Johnson, cited in Maclellan, 2001, p. 76). The recommendations for teachers in the Foundation Stage ( ...

tively by simply being taught them as an abstract procedure’ (Whitebread, 1995, p. 35). Whitebread contends that within this (em ...

is how this interacts with the learner. Only then will we be in a position to provide the kind of interaction and provision nece ...

interested in ‘flipping over’ the concept of emergent writing into mathematics and asked Mary to invite some local teachers who ...

‘Goodbye,’ said the fox. ‘And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; w ...

with young children, Brizuela has also focused on certain aspects of their mathe- matical ‘notations’, recognising that young ch ...

At home – Matt’s numbers Matt ‘read’ his spontaneous scribble, ‘I spell 80354’ (Figure 2.1). Figure 2.1.Matt’s numbers Matt kno ...

Nursery: Charlotte’s ‘hundreds and pounds’ Charlotte chose some different coloured felt-tip pens and shouted out, ‘Look! I’m doi ...

Nursery: ‘the spider’ Joe has made a drawing of a spider (Figure 2.3). He told the teacher, ‘My spider’s got eight legs.’ Figure ...

Figure 2.4The baby clinic On one piece of paper this spontaneous example combines marks and symbols from several children in the ...

Talking to each other and to themselves, they used language relating to measure- ment such as ‘heavy’, ‘this big’, ‘three long’ ...