teaching math to young children

Question 1

discuss what should be known about teaching math to young children.

Answer 1

• teachers need to start teaching basic math skills to children in early childhood because that sets the building blocks for learning basic math skills in the future.
• teacher should use curriculum and teaching practices that strengthen children’s problem solving and reasoning processes as well as representing, communicating, and connecting mathematical ideas.
• teacher should integrate math with other activities.
• math concepts, methods, and language should be introduced through a range of appropriate experiences and teaching strategies.
• teachers should introduce basic terminology to young children because this makes it easier for the children to understand basic math concepts in the future.
• number sense is the first vital skill that young children need to learn before kindergarten. they need to learn to count forwards and backwards to learn about the relationships between numbers in the future.
• children should also learn numbers through representation or pictures. children are naturally visual and can build relationships between numbers and a represented item. pictures of manipulatives should be used when teaching math to young children to help them learn numbers through some form of representation. this also allows children to make connections between the real world and the skills that they are learning.
• adding and subtracting need to be learned before elementary school. basic skills like adding and subtracting can be taught through normal childhood interactions like sharing cookies by subtracting the original number to ensure that all children have the same number of cookies.
• by focusing on basic skills like adding and subtracting, teachers can provide a strong foundation in math skills for the future.

Question 2

the teacher should base the math curriculum and teaching practices on the knowledge of young children’s:

1. ______________
2. _____________
3. _____________
4. _____________

Answer 2

cognitive
linguistic
physical
social-emotional development