Children\'s Mathematics

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in a second language. These research findings support what we have found when children learn their second (abstract) mathematica ...

In different ways, the children’s examples on these pages all include the use of implicit symbols. In his study of 6-year-old ch ...

methods in such instances may have been implied.The children in Hughes’s research project may have used strategies that were app ...

may not know how to use their previous strategies are unable to make approximations (do not have a feel for larger numbers) can ...

withhold standard letters, printed texts and punctuation. What is important is that we provide children with the whole picture – ...

Figure 7.10Anna Calculations with larger numbers supported by jottings In a study of children’s arithmetic Steffe (1983) found t ...

counting on from the larger of the two numbers using a number line with points marked on it using an ‘empty number line’ partit ...

Increasingly children self-correct part way through a calculation, for example as with Darryl in Figure 7.11 and Miles in Figure ...

Dialogue In all the examples in our book, the sort of dialogue that allows for meaning to be explained, negotiated and co-constr ...

standing has developed through their own mathematical marks and written methods. Building secure foundations in this way, childr ...

Understanding children’s developing calculations 131 Gesture,movementand speech Earlyexplorationswith marks The development of w ...

Conclusion We have tried to show something of the level of challenge and thinking that chil- dren experience when working in mor ...

Further Reading Calculations Anghileri, J. (2000) Teaching Number Sense.London: Continuum. Thompson, I. (ed) (1997) Teaching an ...

Rich mathematical environments for learning Inside one classroom Karen teaches 4- and 5-year-olds: her classroom is at the heart ...

The open classroom Central to classrooms that support children’s own mathematical marks on paper, are the conditions that foster ...

materials – and the sort of adults who are interested, willing to listen and to share in the magic of children’s worlds and mean ...

In child-initiated experiences the child directs and leads the activity. It belongs to the child. The child chooses the equipmen ...

is very open so it could be something the teacher started and the children could carry on in their own way. Plans for adult-led ...

The significant feature is to be clear what play and child-initiated learning are, com- pared to adult-directed and adult-led le ...