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The Young Child and Mathematics, Third Edition
Everything a child does has mathematical value—these words are at the heart of this completely revised and updated third edition of The Young Child and Mathematics. Grounded in current research, this classic book focuses on how teachers working with children ages 3 to 6 can find and build on the math inherent in children’s ideas in ways that are playful and intentional.
This resource
- Illustrates through detailed vignettes how math concepts can be explored in planned learning experiences as well as informal spaces
- Highlights in-the-moment instructional decision-making and child–teacher interactions that meaningfully and dynamically support children in making math connections
- Provides an overview of what children know about counting and operations, spatial relations, measurement and data, and patterns and algebra
- Offers examples of informal documentation and assessment approaches that are embedded within classroom practice
Deepen your understanding of how math is an integral part of your classroom all day, every day.
This resource
- Illustrates through detailed vignettes how math concepts can be explored in planned learning experiences as well as informal spaces
- Highlights in-the-moment instructional decision-making and child–teacher interactions that meaningfully and dynamically support children in making math connections
- Provides an overview of what children know about counting and operations, spatial relations, measurement and data, and patterns and algebra
- Offers examples of informal documentation and assessment approaches that are embedded within classroom practice
Deepen your understanding of how math is an integral part of your classroom all day, every day.
128 pages, Paperback
Published November 23, 2021
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February 28, 2022
Great resource from NAEYC, for both veteran and new preschool teachers. It really emphasizes the idea that teachers may be underestimating what young children are capable of and how to reframe the educator's thinking on how mathematics is integrated into the classroom and a child's daily life.
My own 4yo loved listening to this book read aloud (motherhood multitasking) with the vignettes throughout the book, and often had some really great things to say about the concepts in the book, even commenting unprompted on why data might look different day to day, which really supported the author's idea of underestimation.
Children are amazing, this book reiterates that.
My own 4yo loved listening to this book read aloud (motherhood multitasking) with the vignettes throughout the book, and often had some really great things to say about the concepts in the book, even commenting unprompted on why data might look different day to day, which really supported the author's idea of underestimation.
Children are amazing, this book reiterates that.
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