Young Children Learn Measurement and Geometry: A Learning-Teaching Trajectory with Intermediate Attainment Targets for the Lower Grades in Primary School

Marja van den Heuvel-Panhuizen; Kees Buys

ISBN 10: 9087903979 / ISBN 13: 9789087903978

Published by Sense Publishers, 2010

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Oversized paperback, 356 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited wear, good condition with clean and bright pages and unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A diagonal crease on the front cover. -- This research-based guide presents a complete learning-teaching trajectory, providing educators with a developmental pathway and concrete activities to effectively teach foundational measurement and geometry concepts in the early grades. -- The book is structured into two main sections. The measurement portion outlines a learning path that progresses from comparing and ordering, to pacing off with non-standard units, and finally to using measuring instruments. The geometry section is built on three core principles: orienting (visualizing from various viewpoints), constructing (building, cutting, folding), and operating with figures (transformations like sliding and reflecting). These principles are explored through creative lessons involving mirrors, shadows, and mosaics. A final chapter details the "Building with Blocks" computer program for developing 3D spatial understanding. -- This handbook stands out for its empirically validated learning trajectories, directly informing NCTM-aligned curricula. Unlike generic math guides, it marries theory with classroom-ready lessons based on the highly regarded Dutch TAL project. Practicing teachers, preservice educators, and curriculum developers rely on its intermediate attainment targets to scaffold students from intuitive exploration to formal reasoning. The book remains crucial for reforming early math education, enhancing STEM readiness, problem-solving, and visual-spatial literacy for all learners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Young Children Learn Measurement and Geometry: A Learning-Teaching Trajectory with Intermediate Attainment Targets for the Lower Grades in Primary School
• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9087903979
• ISBN 13: 9789087903978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Improving the quality of education is an important ambition of educational policy. The TAL project aims to contribute to this. It is a project initiated by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and carried out by the Freudenthal Institute (FI) of Utrecht University and the Dutch National Institute for Curriculum Development (SLO), and partly conducted in cooperation with the Rotterdam Center for Educational Services (CED). The quality of education can be improved in many ways. TAL proposes to do this by providing insights into the broad longitudinal outline of the learning-teaching process and its internal coherence. The intention of TAL is to give support to teachers in combination with the guidance they get from mathematics textbook series. This learning-teaching trajectory description for measurement and geometry aims to succeed in stimulating classroom practice and to inspire teachers to didactical efforts on a high level, in what was up to now, in the lower grades of primary school, a less-known subdomain of mathematics. The learning-teaching trajectory with intermediate attainment targets offers support to teachers, in order to give measurement and geometry a full and worthy place within the mathematics curriculum. For that to be the case, the foundation that is made with this learning-teaching trajectory must be built upon in the higher grades of primary school and beyond.