
Supporting Early Mathematical Development
Practical Approaches to Play-Based Learning
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Product details:
- Edition number 2, New edition
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 May 2025
- ISBN 9781032156286
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages516 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 354 Illustrations, black & white; 136 Halftones, black & white; 218 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
This book combines theory and practice to enable successful mathematical education for children from birth to twelve years. It considers how students, academics, parents and professionals can develop their mathematical thinking practice whilst acknowledging we will always be practising the craft of teaching mathematics.
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Supporting Early Mathematical Development is an essential text, combining theory and practice to enable successful mathematical education for children from birth to 12 years. This text considers how students, academics, parents and professionals can develop their mathematical thinking practice whilst acknowledging there will always be a road yet to travel; we will always be practising the craft of teaching mathematics. Charting the delivery of mathematical development in playgroups, children?s centres, nurseries and primary schools, the book promotes an effective pedagogy for mathematics.
This new edition provides a conceptualisation of mathematics and places a fresh emphasis on mathematical literacy to empower children. New chapters include the following:
? Mediators of Mathematical Thinking
? Understanding Pattern, Pre-Algebraic and Algebraic Thinking
? Naming, Renaming and Processing Numbers
? Statistics, Statistical Diagrams and Probability
? Measure
? Geometry
Throughout the book, Caroline McGrath navigates the complexity of teaching and learning mathematics, through careful thought and consideration of mediators of mathematical thinking. This supportive book is designed for educators who want to know how to reconstruct mathematical ideas with children and respond in the moment. Returning to the root of understanding, using the adaptive pedagogical style recommended in this text, you can create satisfying mathematical experiences for children.
"This is a detailed, thorough and comprehensive guide to teaching mathematics to young children. It is reflective and philosophical, yet also full of practical advice and examples from someone who works with young children.
McGrath sees teaching as a professional thinking craft, backed by pertinent theories and principles, which are freely quoted throughout this book.
She encourages teachers to use thoughtful, and thought-provoking questioning in their classes. That implies using the important, if not crucial, skill of listening to your pupils.
There are some delightful nuggets in this book. I particularly liked the comparison of emotions to a spectrum of colours from sage green satisfaction to mid-red fear to dark black dread.
McGrath advocates teaching a range of methods and perceptions to her learners, encouraging metacognition and reflection. Reading about this makes us, the readers also reflect on our own practices. She also emphasises the developmental nature of mathematics and illustrates this with a comprehensive explanation of all the components of a typical maths curriculum as used by children up to the age of around 12 years."
Steve Chinn, Visiting Professor, University of Derby, UK, Author of The Trouble with Maths and More Trouble with Maths
MoreTable of Contents:
Foreword
Anne D. Cockburn
Introduction
1. Mediators of Mathematical thinking: Models and Minds
2. Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving
3. Fear, anxiety and other emotions
4. General Principles and Practical Implications for Early Years Mathematics
5. Specific Principles and Practical Implications for Early Years Mathematics
6. Early Years Mathematics
7. Understanding Pattern, Pre-algebraic and Algebraic thinking
8. Naming, Renaming and Processing Numbers
9. Understanding Addition and Subtraction: Mental Strategies
10. Understanding Addition and Subtraction: Formal Algorithms
11. Multiplication and Division: Mental Strategies
12. Understanding Multiplication and Division: Formal Algorithms
13. Statistics, Statistical diagrams and Probability
14. Measure
15. Geometry
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