Mathematics and transition to school : international perspectives /

This edited book brings together for the first time an international collection of work focused on two important aspects of any young child?s life ? learning mathematics and starting primary or elementary school. The chapters take a variety of perspectives, and integrate these two components in some...

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Other Authors: Gervasoni, Ann (Editor), MacDonald, Amy (Editor), Perry, Bob (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2015]
Series:Early Mathematics Learning and Development.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Mathematics and Transition to School: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Implications
  • Part I The Mathematics Young Children Bring to the First Year of School
  • 2 Swimming Upstream in a Torrent of Assessment
  • 3 Assessing Young Children?s Mathematical Understanding: Opportunities and Expectations at the Transition to School
  • 4 Children?s Mathematical Knowledge Prior to Starting School and Implications for Transition
  • 5 Transition to School: Prior to School Mathematical Skills and Knowledge of Low-Achieving Children at the End of Grade 1
  • 6 Let?s Count: Early Childhood Educators and Families Working in Partnership to Support Young Children?s Transitions in Mathematics Education
  • 7 The Role of the Home Environment in Children?s Early Numeracy Development: A Canadian Perspective
  • 8 Mathematics Teachers Responding to Children?s Resources to Create Learning for All
  • Part II Continuity of Mathematics Curriculum and/or Pedagogy as Children Begin School
  • 9 The Relationship Between Policy and Practice in the Early Mathematics Curriculum for Reception-Class Children in England
  • 10 Scaling Up Early Mathematics Interventions: Transitioning with Trajectories and Technologies
  • 11 Partnerships that Support Children?s Mathematics During the Transition to School: Perceptions, Barriers and Opportunities
  • 12 The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom During the First School Years in Finland and Sweden
  • 13 A New Zealand Perspective: Mathematical Progressions from Early Childhood to School through a Child Centred Curriculum?
  • 14 The Impact of a Patterns and Early Algebra Program on Children?s Learning in Transition to School in Australian Indigenous Communities
  • 15 Preschool Mathematics Learning and School Transition in Hong Kong
  • Part III Informal and Formal Mathematics and the Transition to School
  • 16 Early Mathematics in Play Situations: Continuity of Learning
  • 17 Mathematical Conversations that Challenge Children?s Thinking
  • 18 Transition to School: Supporting Children?s Engagement in Mathematical Thinking Processes
  • 19 Listening to Children?s Mathematics in School.