Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research: Learning Trajectories for Young Children

by Sarama; Julie A.

• ISBN13: 9780805863093
• ISBN10: 0805863095
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-03-12
• Publisher: Routledge

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.

Author Biography

Julie Sarama is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Douglas H. Clements is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood, Mathematics, and Computer Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Appreciation to the Funding Agencies	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Early Childhood Mathematics Learning	p. 3
Number and Quantitative Thinking	p. 27
Quantity, Number, and Subitizing	p. 29
Verbal and Object Counting	p. 53
Comparing, Ordering, and Estimating	p. 81
Arithmetic: Early Addition and Subtraction and Counting Strategies	p. 101
Arithmetic: Composition of Number, Place Value, and Multidigit Addition and Subtraction	p. 129
Geometry and Spatial Thinking	p. 159
Spatial Thinking	p. 161
Shape	p. 199
Composition and Decomposition of Shapes	p. 247
Geometric Measurement	p. 271
Geometric Measurement, Part 1: Length	p. 273
Geometric Measurement, Part 2: Area, Volume, and Angle	p. 293
Other Content Domains and Processes	p. 317
Other Content Domains	p. 319
Mathematical Processes	p. 335
Professional Development and Scaling Up	p. 347
Notes	p. 367
References	p. 371
Index	p. 397
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