Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research : Learning Trajectories for Young Children

by Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H.

• ISBN13: 9780203883785
• ISBN10: 0203883780
• Copyright: 2009-03-16
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface

Appreciation the Funding Agencies

Introduction

Early Childhood Mathematics Learning

Number and Quantitative Thinking

Quantity, Number, and Subitizing

Verbal and Object Counting

Comparing, Ordering, and Estimating

Arithmetic: Early Addition and Subtraction and Counting Strategies

Arithmetic: Composition of Number, Place Value, and Multidigit Addition and Subtraction

Geometry and Spatial Thinking

Spatial Thinking

Shape

Composition and Decomposition of Shapes

Geometric Measurement

Geometric Measurement, Part 1: Length

Geometric Measurement, Part 2: Area, Volume, and Angle

Other Content Domains and Processes

Other Content Domains

Mathematical Processes

Professional Development and Scaling Up

Notes

References

Index

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