Children\'s Mathematics

Office box Following a visit to the school office one day we discussed the secretary’s work and the resources we’d seen her use. ...

the mark-making. There needs to be places to draw, sketch, write and make all sorts of mathematical marks. Large paper with spac ...

Figure 8.4 List of medicines When environments are mathematical, mathematics happens Hall (1987, p. 19) states that: children sh ...

important because of the value placed on child-initiated learning. The actual physi- cal environment is less important in a pure ...

The pet shop Figure 8.6 Omar’s dog Omar, 4:6, used the form to reflect on the pet he’d like (Figure 8.6). At the top he wrote ‘£ ...

A purposeful mathematical act: Hall et al. wrote about a conventional nursery class where there seemed to be no evi- dence of ch ...

sensitively and in an open way, families really appreciate this start to the day and often younger siblings will join in with th ...

Displays Displays can provide children with models for written mathematics. It is important to put up the children’s own represe ...

Displays can be time-consuming so they need to be of value to the children. They can also be put up with the children’s help and ...

Once the children find ownership of the board then they will post a variety of pieces from pictures to brochures. They will remi ...

purpose and shows the equipment to the children. Sometimes a graphics area becomes outdated and needs revival: then a theme may ...

Creating opportunities in Early Years settings Munn (1997) in her study of nursery classes found that the adults provided many l ...

Figure 8.7a Sam’s marks Figure 8.7b Sophie’s marks In order to create rich mathematical environments we need to put on our ‘math ...

This passion for form-filling extends to form-making, relating to children’s grid schemas (see Chapter 3). Other clocks go throu ...

Figure 8.8 Jessica’s sign Both Louisa and Scarlett had moved from purely representing their objects to cutting them out so that ...

Figure 8.9 Louisa’s dial Figure 8.10 Scarlett’s till Scarlett, 5:0, drew a shop till (Figure 8.10) which may have also been infl ...

Figure 8.11 Rose’s counting in twenties The maths explored here included estimation and adaptation of known rules. Build- ing on ...

These examples show a progression in the way in which the children have chosen to represent data and in their layout. Other chil ...

Figure 8.12 Dinner registers 8.12a Gemma 8.12b Natasha 8.12c Alice 8657part 2.qxd 04/07/2006 17:26 Page 158 ...

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