Comments on: Principles of Teaching Number – 2

By: Miriam Heligio

Miriam Heligio — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:14:53 +0000

When I started working with children. The teacher told me that we needed to do observacions and math was one of the areas that we needed to cover. She thought me how to find math in children\’s activities. For example, when they are eating. They like to line up their slices of fruit or cookies and count them. This is a natural way in which they explore math.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:59:19 +0000

In order for the relationships to be relevant, the children still need an adult or an older child to scaffold the experience. Many children will line up 3 blocks or make a circle with blocks and they may even observe certain characteristics about those objects, but the relationships between the objects may not be readily apparent to the young child. That is why teachers of young children need to be on the rug, playing with the children (or next to them) to provide the relevance.

By: brenda

brenda — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:51:59 +0000

Children based play is always present. We don\’t have to create ,we just help guide when the opportunity happens such as three cars line up in block area or placing three red blocks in a circle is meaningful to a child, things don\’t have to be place inside a teacher\’s curriculum to teach math. children will allow us to know their interest exploring their way of comparison or relationship between objects.