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Format:
Paperback
288 pp.
80 illustrations and photos, 190 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195567021

Copyright Year:
2010

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

Numeracy in Early Childhood

Shared Contexts for Teaching and Learning

Agnes Macmillan

This book demonstrates how early childhood practitioners can stimulate and facilitate numeracy education from infancy by listening, observing and responding to the mathematical content in children's in everyday life. Detailed observations of real life situations and dialogue assist pre-service teachers to make sense of mathematical meanings and teaching strategies. With reference to the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers' Standards of Excellence, current early education teaching models and planning and assessment practices are examined. Mathematical concepts are simply explained to assist the readers' own conceptual knowledge, so that they can recognise the mathematics and support children in their numeracy development. The underlying theories and current research into children's learning is used to examine children's acquisition of numerate identities.

Readership : Suitable for Teacher Education students studying in early childhood education degrees from first to third and final years. Numeracy/Mathematics is a core National Curriculum subject.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Shared Contexts for Teaching and Learning Numeracy
3. Children Becoming Numerate
4. The role of language in learning
5. Managing the resources of the community
6. The acquisition of a numerate identity
7. Professional Knowledge
8. Using the Language of Mathematics
9. Assessing children's mathematical learning potential
10. Approaches to planning in numeracy education
11. Catering for individual learning potential and cultural diversity
12. Ben's acquisition of a numerate identity at school
Glossary
Appendices
Index

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Agnes Macmillan taught early mathematics/numeracy in early childhood teacher education courses over a number of years and has published and presented internationally in this area.

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Special Features

Covers 0-8 age range and links prior-to-school and school contexts and learning.
Written from sociocultural and play-based learning perspectives, using child-centred planning and pedagogy, and observation-based evaluation of early childhood education contexts.
Focus on identifying mathematical concepts in everyday language/everyday life and models of interaction with children which help them guide mathematical learning.
Assists the reader in developing favourable attitudes towards maths both for themselves and in the children whom they are educating.
Linked to Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers' (AAMT) Standards for Excellence.
Written to adapt to different curriculum with an emphasis on the students' understanding of the theoretical basis.
The book is scholarly but accessible for less experienced readers.