Forging Connections in Early Mathematics Teaching and Learning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kinnear, Virginia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lai, Mun Yee (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Muir, Tracey (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Early Mathematics Learning and Development,
• Subjects: Mathematics-Study and teaching .; Child development.; Learning.; Instruction.; Mathematics Education.; Early Childhood Education.; Learning & Instruction.

This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education.  The book addresses some key challenges in research, policy and practice in early childhood mathematics education. It exam...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Forging Connections in Early Mathematics: Perspectives and provocations
• 2 Early Mathematics Education: A plea for mathematically founded conceptions
• 3 Powerful Frameworks for Conceptual Understanding
• 4 Building Connections between Children's Representations and their Conceptual Development in Mathematics
• 5 Geometry Learning in the Early Years: Developing understanding of shapes and space with a focus on visualization
• 6 A Possible Learning Trajectory for Young Children's Experiences of the Evolution of the Base-ten Positional Numeral System
• 7  From Cradle to Classroom: Exploring opportunities to support the development of shape and space concepts in very young children
• 8 Mathematizing Basic Addition
• 9 Connecting the Mathematics Identity of Early Childhood Educators to Classroom Experiences for Young Children
• 10 Using Mathematics to Forge Connections between Home and School
• 11 Young Children's Reasoning through Data Exploration
• 12 Making Connections to Realize Learning Potential in Early Childhood Mathematics
• 13 Children's Interests: Cultural ways of knowing Mathematics
• 14 Making Connections using Multiplication and Division Contexts
• 15 Slow Maths: A metaphor of Connectedness for Early Childhood Mathematics.