Title Details: | |
An inquiry approach to early school mathematics: Criteria for designing activities and evaluating materials |
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Authors: |
Skoumpourdi, Chrysanthi |
Reviewer: |
Kafoussi, Sonia |
Subject: | MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE > MATHEMATICS > MATHEMATICS EDUCATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > LEVELS OF EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL STATUS > PRΕ-SCHOOL EDUCATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > LEVELS OF EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL STATUS > PRIMARY EDUCATION HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > LEVELS OF EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL STATUS > UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION > EDUCATIONAL PLANNING HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY > AUDIOVISUAL AIDS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > EDUCATION AND EDUCATION SCIENCES > TEACHING AND LEARNING (PROCESSES AND METHODOLOGY) |
Keywords: |
Math activities
Educational material Early childhood Inquiry-based learning Argumentation Numbers and operations Patterns Space Plane shapes Geometric solids Length measurement Area measurement Statistics Probability |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
There are many reasons that advocate the teaching of mathematics from the first school age and are related to the important role that mathematics plays in our society; to the fact that children from a very young age have the ability and the interest to learn mathematics; as well as to the fact that young children have early informal mathematical knowledge. These early knowledge on the one hand can create the foundations for the learning of formal mathematics and on the other can negatively affect school performance due to their differences (e.g. informal knowledge of different levels).
In order to close the gap of possible differences in the early informal mathematical knowledge of young children and to reduce the risk of creating learning difficulties during the formal teaching of mathematics at the higher levels of education, it is suggested that teachers use conscious teaching practices and teaching interventions which to support a quality mathematics education.
In this context, the inquiry approach, as an innovative pedagogical practice for teaching mathematics, proposes the construction of knowledge through collaboration, communication and argumentation, emphasizing not only to the cultivation of the cognitive domain and the acquisition of mathematical knowledge, but also the social and communicative domain, resulting in the cultivation of various abilities and skills, necessary for the student in the present and in the future period of time, for his role as an active, aware and intelligent citizen.
The need to support candidates, but also active teachers in the above "requirements" led to the writing of this book. In this book, theoretical, research and educational issues are presented and discussed, necessary for the search, the design, the selection, the evaluation and the preparation for use of (educational) materials and activities, with the aim of approaching basic topics of early childhood mathematics (Numbers and Operations, Patterns, Space, Plane Shapes and Geometric Solids, Length, Area, Statistics and Probability), through the inquiry-based approach.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Chatzigeorgiou, Athina |
Technical Editors: |
Fatseas, Ioannis N. |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 07-06-2023 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-5726-04-1 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-125 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/8636 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Skoumpourdi, C. (2023). An inquiry approach to early school mathematics: Criteria for designing activities and evaluating materials [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-125 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Mathematical education under the perspective of the inquiry approach 2. The (additional) material in the inquiry-based mathematics education 3. Frameworks for evaluation and design of educational materials 4. Framework for designing inquiry-based activities 5. Topics on numbers and operations 6. Topics on patterns 7. Topics on space 8. Topics on plane shapes and geometric solids 9. Topics on length measurement 10. Topics on rectangle area measurement 11. Topics on statistics 12. Topics on probability |
Number of pages |
330 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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