Learning and Teaching Early Math

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research into how young children learn mathematics, and how best to develop foundational knowledge to realize more effective teaching.

Autorentext

Douglas H. Clements is Distinguished University Professor, the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, and co-Executive Director of the Marsico Institute of Early Learning, at the University of Denver.

Julie Sarama is Distinguished University Professor, the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Innovative Learning Technologies, and co-Executive Director of the Marsico Institute of Early Learning, at the University of Denver.

Inhalt

1. Young Children and Mathematics Learning

2. Quantity, Number, and Subitizing

3. Verbal and Object Counting

4. Comparing, Ordering, and Estimating

5. Arithmetic: Early Addition and Subtraction and Counting Strategies

6. Arithmetic: Composition of Number, Place Value, and Multidigit Addition

and Subtraction, and Multiplication and Division, and Fractions

7. Spatial Thinking

8. Shape

9. Composition and Decomposition of Shapes

10. Geometric Measurement: Length

11. Geometric Measurement: Area, Volume, and Angle

12. Other Content Domains: Patterns, Structure, and Algebraic Thinking; Classification and Data

13. Mathematical Processes and Practices

14. Cognition, Affect, and Equity

15. Early Childhood Mathematics Education: Contexts and Curricula

16. Instructional Practices and Pedagogical Issues