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Young children need to see themselves as capable mathematicians. Child-guided and child-focused explorations and teacher-guided math activities help children practice and consolidate their learning. This helps them feel confident about what they know and can do.
Incorporating math at a young age helps children build numeracy skills, understand spatial relationships, and acquire mathematical language. It also promotes critical thinking and practical application of math in everyday life.
In this chapter, you'll explore the importance of early math education, and best teaching practices in early childhood mathematics. You will be introduced to the joint position statement from the NCTM and NAEYC on early mathematics.
Efforts to help parents build their children’s early math skills should therefore focus on three things: (1) broadening parents’ understanding of early math and its importance, (2) helping them to overcome their own anxiety about math, and (3) giving them concrete tools to help their children learn through daily activities.33, 35 Parents ...
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“Communication is an essential process in learning mathematics. Through communication, students are able to reflect upon and clarify their ideas, their understanding of mathematical relationships, and their mathematical arguments” (Ministry of Education, 2005, p. 17).
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Ongoing communication in mathematics is important, and it is a critical process in developing children’s mathematical thinking. Many mathematical tasks require children to demonstrate correct answers without rationalizing how they obtained the answers.
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Let’s consider the importance of communication for young children. As one of the major developmental tasks in early childhood, learning to communicate is key for children to interact with the persons in their world and to have their needs met. Few tasks in early childhood are as important as this one! Communication development for young
