Investigating Mathematics with Young Children - Softcover

Althouse, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807733490 ISBN 13: 9780807733493

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 1994

Synopsis

Rosemary Althouse applies a new emphasis to the challenge of teaching mathematics to three-, four- and five-year old children. Conceived as a companion volume to Althouse's popular ""Investigating Science With Young Children"", this book outlines over 50 developmentally appropriate and innovative activities for helping young children explore the exciting world of mathematics in ways that are non-threatening, non-coercive and very much hands-on. In Part 1, the author develops a theoretical approach by applying information processing theory and Piagetian psychology to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' ""Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics"", which is used as a framework within which to plan mathematical activities for young children. Part 2, the bulk of the book, presents the activities themselves in chapters organised around mathematical themes or topics. Children investigate such approachable concepts as number, measurement, spatial relationships, shape, sequencing, patterns, mathematical language, and problem solving, with an emphasis on teaching mathematics as an integral part of an early childhood education programme rather than as a set of isolated skills.

About this title

Review

"There is much of value here."

--School Science & Mathematics

About the Author

Althouse is professor emeritus of early childhood education at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina. She earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. from the State University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807733490
• ISBN 13: 9780807733493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192