There are so many things I think that early childhood educators can do to support children\u2019s early learning about symbols and the mappings and the quantities. Providing children with lots of opportunities to see the quantities existing in the world. So if you\u2019re setting the table, how many spoons do you need for everyone who\u2019s going to be sitting at the table? Counting as children are sitting down. If they\u2019re sitting down in a circle, they could be counting. I\u2019m 1, I\u2019m 2, I\u2019m 3, I\u2019m 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s so many opportunities to work with objects, to do things that are related to mathematics. And so it would be good to capitalize on that and build that into their play and their activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though mathematics seems like a separate thing from language that many of the same kinds of activities that they already enjoy participating in, more mathematics, more number related activities could be brought into it. So, for example, if we think about storybooks, right? Kids love to be read to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are more and more storybooks that have number related content in them and teachers can\u2014in ECE, people can use those storybooks to emphasize things. The kinds of things I was talking about before. So, for example, the idea of\u2014the little story, 10 little monkeys jumping on the bed, right. You can imagine a storybook that sort of structured that way as well. Seeing the symbol for a number, being able to count that many monkeys, talking about how say, five monkeys is one more than four monkeys and so on. There\u2019s lots of opportunities like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When children are interacting with the objects at school or in their environment, so much of what they do has mathematical and spatial properties to it. So, for example, if I\u2019m building a tower of blocks and I put the small block on the bottom and try to put the big block on the top, that\u2019s not going to work, right? And so those spatial relationships are part of early math knowledge as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And for example, being able to order things in terms of size, which could be part of lots of different kinds of activities. There\u2019s so many things that we\u2014I think we kind of take for granted how much spatial mathematical logical information is kind of embedded in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so I think that giving children lots of different kinds of things to play with and maybe prompting them a little bit to do\u2014maybe use them in different ways could lead to a rich and interesting set of activities that would also facilitate their early mathematics knowledge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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