Children\'s Mathematics

Nicola, 5:0, used the letters of her own name and zigzag lines on different areas of the page. She then wrote the names ‘Mummy’ ...

Figure 4.3 Robert’s notice Early writing and links with schemas In the previous chapter we saw how Aaron’s schemas or attractor ...

‘g’ and ‘e’ and in numerals such as ‘3’, ‘6’ and ‘9’; whilst connecting and direction (including vertical and horizontal) are fe ...

history of his writing. But even these methods are not developed all at once: they pass through a number of trials and invention ...

On p. 63 is a concept map to show the possible link between the development of early writing and Sovay’s number development (Car ...

Early writing, early mathematics 65 Literacy Chomsky’s (1965) Language Acquisition Device (LAD) innate structures somehow guide ...

early ‘written’ mathematics is considerably behind our understanding of children’s early writing development. However, if one co ...

oped their understanding and practice to support children’s own early writing, they will more readily understand how to support ...

may help the student to clarify, to predict, to develop further, to look for alternatives”’ (Stoessinger and Wilkinson, 1991, ci ...

Edward is 5 years old and is at school. This morning he tries to do a complete page of addition sums in his mathematics lesson: ...

Daniel Daniel’s sums may be an extreme example of a child’s mathematical experience but it does highlight some important points. ...

although many claim that children do maths for 80 per cent of the day the reality is that children are using numeracy skills for ...

Figure 5.1 Scott’s addition Understanding symbols Semiotics Any serious discussion concerning the development of symbols concern ...

something other than what they are. For example, in our culture a cross drawn on a card or paper may first become associated wit ...

tematic ways’. Therefore, young children not only have to make sense of individual symbols but need to understand their role wit ...

Problems with standard algorithms As older children are introduced to standard algorithms as in long division, multipli- cation ...

dren to move towards the abstract. There is also more of a link between children’s mental methods and their own written methods. ...

we uncovered children’s meanings on paper and began to link theory and practice. In this book we look closely at the development ...

and NumberHughes pointed out that for many learners mathematics is ‘more like an unfamiliar foreign language’ (Hughes, 1986, p. ...

and English (Kenner, 2004a and b; Kenner and Kress, 2003); Hebrew or Arabic and English (Mor-Sommerfield, 2002); and Pahari or U ...