Last week we
started talking about a newly-released guide from the US Department of
Education Institute of Education Sciences entitled Teaching Math to Young Children.
Their first recommendation is to “teach number and operations using a
developmental progression.” This week,
we’ll talk about the second recommendation, to “teach geometry, patterns,
measurement, and data analysis using a developmental progression.” Again, there is a focus on developmental
progression, but this recommendation is stretching last week’s skills a
bit.
While
children must understand numbers and operations, they also have to see how
mathematical concepts exist in the world around them and how they can use those
concepts to explore and explain their world.
Early
concepts include:
- Shapes—Recognizing, naming, and comparing shapes, then combining and separating those shapes to create new shapes.
- Patterns—Finding, identifying, extending, correcting and creating patterns.
- Measurement—Using both standard and nonstandard units and tools for measurement.
- Graphing—Collecting and organizing information and representing the information graphically.
For more
information and suggestions on activities to teach these concepts to children,
check out the guide at: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/practice_guides/early_math_pg_111313.pdf#page=18
Misty
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