Mathematics and Transition to School
International Perspectives
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Beschreibung
This edited book brings together for the first time an international collection of work focused on two important aspects of any young child’s life – learning mathematics and starting primary or elementary school. The chapters take a variety of perspectives, and integrate these two components in sometimes explicit and sometimes more subtle ways.
The key issues and themes explored in this book are:
- the mathematical and other strengths that all participants in the transition to school bring to this period of a child’s life;
- the opportunities provided by transition to school for young children’s mathematics learning;
- the importance of partnerships among adults, and among adults and children, for effective school transitions and mathematics learning and teaching;
- the critical impact of expectations on their mathematics learning as children start school;
- the importance of providing children with meaningful, challenging and relevant mathematical experiences throughout transition to school;
- the entitlement of children and educators to experience assessment and instructional pedagogies that match the strengths of the learners and the teachers;
- the importance for the aspirations of children, families, communities, educators and educational organisations to be recognised as legitimate and key determinants of actions, experiences and successes in both transition to school and mathematics learning; and
- the belief that young children are powerful mathematics learners who can demonstrate this power as they start school.
In each chapter, authors reflect on their work in the area of mathematics and transition to school, place that work within the overall context of research in these fields, predict the trajectory of this work in the future, and consider the implications of the work both theoretically and practically.
The first edited international research book to consider mathematics and transition to school in tandem A wide selection of highly credentialed and well-respected chapter authors from across the globe Provides researchers, educators and policy makers with access to key international research, scholarship and directions in the fields of mathematics and young children’s transition to school An important text for use in preparing early childhood/primary teachers and conducting early childhood/primary education research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Bob Perry
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Contexts for mathematics learning Diverse mathematics learners Early childhood education Early childhood learning Early childhood mathematics curriculum Early childhood pedagogy Early childhood teacher professional development Early years education Informal mathematics Learning mathematics in prior to school settings Mathematical language Mathematics education Mathematics education in early childhood Mathematics education in the early years Mathematics teacher education
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“Bob Perry, Amy MacDonald, and Ann Gervasoni present various international viewpoints on two important aspects of every child’s life: learning mathematics and starting primary or elementary school. … This book offers a great selection of viewpoints on how early childhood students enter into school and the various techniques used to teach and learn mathematics. … this book being read and appreciated by a wide variety of teachers and administrators.” (Peter Olszewski, MAA Reviews, April, 2015)
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