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Drawing on their many years′ experience of teaching children 3 to 8 years, the authors explain the development and range of young children′s mathematical marks and representations. They show how to assess and support these early mathematical graphics. The authors believe that this is the key to success in school mathematics and to higher levels of achievement.
Offering a wealth of practical guidance to support teachers of young children, the book is linked to current educational theory. It sets out ways of helping children make sense of mathematics and suggests an alternative approach to the use of worksheets. It is supported by numerous examples of children′s own representations and intuitive methods. Children are then more able to translate between their informal knowledge and more abstract forms of mathematical symbolism, which they meet as they progress through school.
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Maulfry Worthington is an Early Years Consultant and Elizabeth Carruthers is a Foundation Stage Advisory Teacher. Previously both have worked as consultants for the National Numeracy Strategy and as lecturers in Early Childhood Education.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Visit the authors own website here! Childrens Mathematics Network `This fascinating and well research book gripped me from beginning to end. It is authoritative while at the same time easy to read and would appeal to teachers who want to move their mathematics teaching forward but dont quite know how to go about it. Read this book and throw away your worksheets! Foundation Stage File `(Drawing on) quotes from The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery (1958), the authors discuss the mathematical development of young children. Examples from young childrens work help illustrate the various strategies children use to display their thinking. Each chapter includes suggestions and methods to encourage childrens mathematical thinking. They stress the need for teachers to recognize the mathematical knowledge that children own when coming to school and offer ways to bridge the gap. For those working in an early childhood environment, this book can be an excellent resource in understanding and planning for childrens mathematical experiences - Deborah Ann Jensen, Faculty of Education - Hunter College, City University of New York `This book demonstrates the provociativeness of maths and its potential to inspire motivate and challenge the youngest minds. Childrens Mathematics will stimulate professional development in early years mathematics and is recommended reading for all early years educators - European Early Childhood Education Research Journal `The writers make a very convincing case for the usefulness of exploring childrens marks in order to understand their mathematical cognition. The examples of childrens written representations provide fascinating insights into how different children think about mathematics - Katherine Canobi, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, International Journal of Early Years Education `Childrens Mathematics: Making Marks, Making Meaning is essential reading for students of Education and Early Childhood Studies, as well as for those practitioners working in the Foundation and Primary stages of education Anne Cooper, Mathematics in Schools (Mathematics Association) `This publication will stimulate the thinking of early years practitioners with an enthusiasm for mathematics and will strike a familiar chord with those whose particular interest lies in literacy and mark making. This is a book rich with detail yet easy to read. A short review cannot do justice to the range of insights it offers to a wide audience. Practitioners wishing to extend their work in mathematics would enjoy and benefit from delving into this book, students and researchers with mathematical concerns will find summaries of previous work linked to established theory, and teachers of children over five years old will find useful insights into working with parents to help children become effective mathematicians. It is well constructed and provides a range of interesting examples of effective pedagogy in early years mathematics. It is an excellent stimulus for those who want to develop their practice as well as their knowledge Anna Cox. Journal of Early Childhood Research. A very useful addition for students in early years. We will put it on the reading list for all our courses in future - Val Warren, University of Hertfordshire I shall recommend purchase for our library and on reference for our curriculum centre. It covers very important material for our prospective primary school teachers - Carole Plater, University of Brighton A very timely book, supporting the NNS and OfSTED efforts to encourage childrens jottings - Dr A Wing, University of Brighton The authors are winners of the TACTYCs 2003 Jenefer Joseph Award for the Creative Arts in the Early Years (3-8), presented `for recognizing the intrinsic value of the creative arts in childrens lives and presenting them in more innovative ways Elizabeth Carruthers and Maulfry Worthington are winners of the Basia Korczak award for outstanding innovative achievement in ICT (2003) for their work on the GTC scholarship e-learning project with teachers; as well as Francis Howlett who built the innovative web environment for the online discussions on childrens mathematical graphics. The research scholarships were jointly funded by the Dfes and teh GTC and supported by Mirandanet and The Intititute of Education. Shortlisted for Bectas ICT IN Practice Awards in the `Innovation and Change category (2004) and for theri innovative use of e-graphics in e-learning. `This is a rather remarkable book. Written by practitioners, it combines information from other sources with a text that is strengthened by many examples from their own professional experience. Their central tenet is that children more easily move from their informal home mathematics to the abstract symbolism of school mathematics if they are encouraged to make their own marks with their own meaning, and that these marks can greatly inform teachers of the childs mathematical understanding and development. Based on the observations of 700 children aged from 3 to 8, they suggest different schema that children use in their construction of knowledge. I found it fascinating. Being helped to decode young childrens marks will help me to look at very young childrens learning, and with more respect! - Lynne McClure, Editor, Primary Mathematics `Your book is brilliant. Most exciting work Ive read in years. Im re-looking at all of my work. Amazing - John Matthews, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore `After my first book, The Emergence of Literacy, came out in 1987, I waited for someone to write "the emergence of numeracy" and could not understand why nobody did. Now they have. I have only seen it this afternoon, but just skimming through it looks absolutely fascinating. It really ought to appeal to more than maths teachers; in a way it is as much about literacy as mathematics, for numbers are written language - Nigel Hall, Manchester Metropolitan University `The authors advocate a spirit of freedom f. Seller Inventory # GOR002456225
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