Mathematical Learning and Cognition in Early Childhood Integrating Interdisciplinary Research into Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Robinson, Katherine M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Osana, Helena P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kotsopoulos, Donna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Infant psychology.; Neurosciences.; Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Infancy and Early Childhood Development.; Mathematics Education.

This book explores mathematical learning and cognition in early childhood from interdisciplinary perspectives, including developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and education. It examines how infants and young children develop numerical and mathematical skills, why some childre...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Infancy and Preschool
• Chapter 1. Early Mathematical Minds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Early Mathematical Learning and Cognition
• Chapter 2. The "Girl Crisis": The Relationship between Early Gender Differences and Future Mathematical Learning and Participation
• Chapter 3. Spatial Learning and Play with Technology: How Parental Spatial Talk Differs Across Contexts
• Chapter 4. Supporting Mathematics Play in Home Environments: A Feasibility Examination of a Take-Home Bag Intervention
• Section II: The Beginnings of Formal Schooling
• Chapter 5. Early Identification of, and Interventions for, Kindergarten Students at Risk for Mathematics Difficulties
• Chapter 6. Mathematical or Computational Thinking: An Early Years Perspective
• Chapter 7. Supporting Meaningful Use of Manipulative in Kindergarten: The Role of Dual Representation in Early Mathematics
• Chapter 8. Kindergarteners and First-Graders' Development of Numbers Representing Length and Area: Stories on Measurement
• Chapter 9. Young Children's Patterning Competencies and Mathematical Development: A Review
• Section III: The Elementary School Years
• Chapter 10. Arithmetic Concepts in the Early School Years
• Chapter 11. An Integrated Approach to Mathematics and Language Theory and Pedagogy
• Chapter 12. Schema Based Instruction: Supporting Children with Learning Difficulties and Intellectual Disabilities
• Chapter 13. Tablets as Elementary Mathematics Education Tools: Are They Effective and Why
• Chapter 14. Early Understanding of Fractions via Early Understanding of Proportion and Division. .