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 for teaching mathematics from early school age and are related to the important role that mathematics plays in modern society, due to the fact that children from a very young age have the ability, opportunity and interest to learn mathematics and due to the fact that they have early informal mathematical knowledge. While this early knowledge, can lay the foundations for learning formal mathematics, it can also have a negative impact on school performance due to its differentiated nature (e.g. informal knowledge at different levels). In order to close the gap of any differentiation in young children's early informal mathematical knowledge and to reduce the risk of creating learning difficulties in formal mathematics instruction at higher levels of education, it is recommended that the teachers use conscious teaching practices and planned instructional interventions that support 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 to the social and communicative domain, resulting in the cultivation of a variety of competences and skills necessary for the student in the present and future time period, for his/her role as an active, aware and intelligent The need to support both aspiring and practising teachers in meeting the above 'requirements' has led to the writing of this book. This book presents and discusses theoretical, research and educational issues necessary for the search, design, selection, evaluation and preparation for using, materials and activities, in order to approach key topics in early school mathematics (Numbers and Operations, Patterns, Space, Plane Shapes and Geometric Solids, Length, Area, Statistics and Probability), through the inquiry 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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