Why Preschool Shouldn’t be Like School – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:50:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Preschool is Different Than School https://earlymathcounts.org/preschool-is-different-than-school/ https://earlymathcounts.org/preschool-is-different-than-school/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:13:47 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=2028 In this article entitled “Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School” the author, Alison Gopnik, makes an interesting argument about the value of exploration.  She references two other studies that had remarkably similar results – children who were allowed to explore materials without direct teaching about those materials explored and discovered more of the material’s attributes than the children who were taught directly by teachers about the materials.

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