ecm pre-numeracy for kindergarten
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This is part of a longer course on teaching pre-numeracy at pre-school levels. This course was presented in Manila in May 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Course Lecturer
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
Pre-Numeracy
Skills
We use numbers in different ways.
Let’s count the ways …
Rote Counting
Rational Counting
Counting – cardinal numbers
Cardinal Numbers
Ordinal Numbers
NominalNumbers
Measurement Numbers
Pre-Numeracy
Skills
What is involved in counting?
Let’s take a look…
Variation
Features of Singapore Math
Matching
Sorting
Main Pre-Numeracy Skills
CPA Approach
Features of Singapore Math
Integration with other domains e.g. art and craft and literature
Thinking Opportunity
Features of Singapore Math
Course Lecturer
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
N u m b e r B o n d s
Number Bonds
The focus on number sense right from the start. Number bonds is taught before addition.
Number Bonds is emphasized prior to the learning of addition.
Children are given, say, 5 unifix cubes and guided to see that 1 and 4 make 5, for example. Others may say that 3 and 2 make 5 or 4 and 1 make 5. Yet others may say that 5 and 0 make 5.
Earlybird Kindergarten Mathematics
Number Bonds
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
One duck is big. Six ducklings are small.
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
PCF Telok Blangah Kindergarten
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Spiral Approach
Features of Singapore Math
Course Lecturer
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
A d d i t i o n & S u b t r a c t i o n
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Addition Facts are given emphasis in the first six months of grade one.
The children learn it in stages as the textbooks distinguished between Numbers to 10 and Numbers to 20.
Count On and Count All are used in Numbers to 10.
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Addition Facts
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Addition Facts & Number Sense
The topics are arranged in a way that makes learning progressive and systematic – this is part of the idea of a spiral curriculum.
Jerome Bruner
Ideas are introduced using concrete materials. Pictorial representations follow. Finally, children
engage with the abstract symbols. This is called the CPA Approach in Singapore.