teaching mathematics in the early years
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Teaching Mathematics In the Early Years
Prepared by: Mrs. May-ridel P. Pasamata
MAED ECSD Instructor
Mathematics• Adults often think of Mathematics as an
abstract discipline involving complex algebraic formulas and geometric calculations• Yet, the foundation of math are grounded
in concrete experience such as:• Exploration of objects•Gradual understanding of their properties and relationships
Cognitive Tasks
Integral Parts of the Development of
Mathematical Knowledge
• Classification is the ability to sort and group objects by some common attribute or property• To classify, a child needs
to note similarities and differences among objects• Involves two
simultaneous processes: 1. Sorting2. Grouping
Classification
Classification
Classification
Classification
• Concerns with the relationship among objects and the ability to place them in a logical sequence or order• Sensory seriation
include ordering sounds from loudest to softest, sweetest to sourest• Early childhood
environment should include many materials and experiences to encourage seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
Seriation
• Number is an understanding of quantity, an awareness that entails increasingly more complex concepts• Earliest forms of
number understanding:• gross comparison of quantity• identifying more or less
Number
Concepts
Number Concepts
One-to-one Corresponde
nce
Number
Concepts
One-to-one Corresponde
nce
Number
Concepts
One-to-one Corresponde
nce
• One-to-one Correspondence – A way in which young preschoolers begin to acquire an understanding of number concepts by matching items to each other• Rote counting – Reciting
Numbers from memory without attaching meaning to them in the context of objects in a series
Number Concepts
• Rational Counting – distinguished from rote counting in which the child accurately attaches a numeral name to a series of objects being counted
Number
Concepts
• Concerned with the child’s gradual awareness of time as continuum• Teach children the
concept of now, before and after• Preschools’ experiences
sense of time are linked to concrete experiences• Temporal Sequencing –
ability to place a series of events in order of occurrence
Temporal Concepts
Temporal
Concepts
Temporal
Concepts
• Cognitive ability involving an understanding of how objects and people occupy, move in, and use space• Learn vocabularies like,
behind, on top of, toward
Spatial
Concepts
Spatial Concepts
Spatial Concepts
Mathematics in ECE• Young children are continually involved in
mathematical learning which early childhood environment and teachers must encourage• Math for young children is not abstract, it
is the provision of many materials that invite the child to handle, explore, compare, measure, combine, take apart, reconstruct, and transform in an infinite variety of ways
Mathematics in ECE• By acting on materials, children
actively construct knowledge and gradually come to understand mathematical principles• Central to this gradual understanding
is the ability to conserve, recognize that objects remain the same in amount or number despite perceptual changes• Preschoolers rely very much on their
perceptions
Mathematics in ECE• This reliance on observable rather
than on internal understanding that materials do not change unless something is added or taken away is a characteristic in the preoperational period• It is through many experiences in
arranging and transforming materials that children gradually move to the concrete operational period in which they are able to conserve
Mathematics in ECE• Thus, preschool children are not
conservers, but they need to have plenty of concrete experiences to acquire this ability in their elementary years
• The early childhood classroom should contain many materials that lend themselves to acquiring math concepts
• The class may also contain a specific math center where materials designed to encourage and enhance math concepts
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