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  • Chapter 2 - Early mathematical understandings

  • Nicola Yelland, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Carmel Diezmann, Australian Catholic University, Deborah Butler, St Margaret's Anglican Girls School
  • Book:
    Early Mathematical Explorations
    Published online:
    06 August 2018
    Print publication:
    20 January 2014, pp 11-27

  • Summary

    Overview

    In this chapter you will become familiar with:

  • the beginning processes for early mathematical understandings – describing attributes, matching, comparing, ordering, sorting and patterning

  • the mathematical concepts of number, measurement, space, and chance and data, and the ways in which these relate to the everyday experiences of young children

  • the importance of language in exploring mathematics in the early years, as well as the use of children’s literature to support mathematical thinking

  • playful explorations as a pedagogical process to stimulate early mathematical learning.

    • Young children are curious from the moment they are born. They look around them, explore objects that they encounter and communicate with utterances in interactions with others. From birth to five years of age, which is generally when compulsory schooling begins, there are many different ways in which the foundations for mathematical understandings are established. The activities and experiences are usually informal and play-based, but there are also opportunities for teachable moments in which a teacher might consolidate particular language or highlight relationships that are fundamental to mathematical thinking and understandings. For example, when telling a child the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, there are many opportunities for the adult to create contexts for understanding mathematical concepts and processes. These are shown in Table 2.1. As well as spanning the concepts of number, measurement, space, and chance and data, these opportunities provide a context for using language to communicate ideas and understandings about the various relationships that occur in the story.

Early Mathematical Explorations
  • Nicola Yelland, Carmel Diezmann, Deborah Butler
  • Published online:
    06 August 2018
    Print publication:
    20 January 2014
  • Early Mathematical Explorations shows readers how to provide young children with rich mathematical learning environments and experiences. This book presents teachers with a sound theoretical framework to encourage children to become numerate in the twenty-first century. It shows that mathematical learning can occur in a variety of ways, including when children explore ideas through play, problem solving and problem posing; engage in a rich variety of multimodal learning experiences; pursue self-directed activities and cooperate with others; and make connections between ideas and experiences in their everyday worlds. Chapters 2 and 3 explore the ways in which mathematical understandings can be supported from birth to five years. Chapters 4–9 provide an overview of mathematics in the early primary years. The final chapters illustrate the contexts and connections that can be made in early mathematical learning. Early Mathematical Explorations is an essential resource for pre- and in-service teachers alike.

Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
  • With a Selection from her Correspondence, and Other Unpublished Writings
  • Volume 1
  • Elizabeth Benger
  • Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    02 January 2014
  • The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?–1816) wrote with especial distinction on the subject of education. Inspired by her older brother, the orientalist Charles Hamilton, she pursued her literary ambitions, informing her work with a knowledge of history, philosophy and politics. Her ability to present complex ideas in an accessible manner did much to secure her an appreciative readership. Establishing her reputation with a satirical attack on radical thought, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800), she enjoyed her greatest literary success with The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), a tale of moral reformation. Her Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801) is also reissued in this series. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1818 by her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827). Volume 1 includes a biographical fragment by Hamilton, along with a selection of journal extracts and satirical essays.

Memoirs of the Late Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton
  • With a Selection from her Correspondence, and Other Unpublished Writings
  • Volume 2
  • Elizabeth Benger
  • Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    02 January 2014
  • The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?–1816) wrote with especial distinction on the subject of education. Inspired by her older brother, the orientalist Charles Hamilton, she pursued her literary ambitions, informing her work with a knowledge of history, philosophy and politics. Her ability to present complex ideas in an accessible manner did much to secure her an appreciative readership. Establishing her reputation with a satirical attack on radical thought, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800), she enjoyed her greatest literary success with The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), a tale of moral reformation. Her Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801) is also reissued in this series. The present work was first published in two volumes in 1818 by her friend and fellow novelist Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827). Volume 2 contains selected letters and Hamilton's previously unpublished critique of the Book of Revelation.

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