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‘What a super book! It is absolutely packed with practical ideas and activities to help you love maths, and love teaching and/or learning it. It certainly helps to develop an enthusiasm for a subject most adults tend to say “I'm no good at…”’
How Children Learn Mathematics and the Implications for Teaching
How Children Learn Mathematics and the Implications for Teaching
Chapter Overview
In this chapter you can read about:
- Why and how young children learn mathematics
- The importance of practical activities
- Starting with children's interests
- Children solving problems
- The progression of children's mathematical ideas from birth to 8 years old.
The Nature of Mathematics and Young Children Learning
- What do you think mathematics is?
- Is it appropriate and important for very young children?
- At what age do you think children should start learning mathematical ideas?
- How can adults help?
Mathematics is defined as ‘the abstract science of number, quantity and space’ by The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Allen, 1990: 732). It can be seen as a way of organising ideas in order to develop concepts. Skemp (1971) identified ...
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