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Michèle M. Mazzocco; Margaret R. Burchinal; Ann C. Schulte; Deborah Lowe Vandell; Ashley Sanabria; Jin Kyoung Hwang; Carol McDonald Connor – Grantee Submission, 2024
To provide a landscape of mathematics activities children experience in U.S. preschool and kindergarten classrooms, we observed time children spent in mathematics activities (and -- as a contrast -- literacy) in 101 geographically diverse early childhood classrooms in seven U.S. states. We also observed what mathematics content, grouping…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities
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Bardy, Thomas; Holzäpfel, Lars; Leuders, Timo – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2021
Tasks play a central role in the mathematics classroom. Especially when teaching in a heterogeneous mathematics class, teachers should be able to find, select, modify, and assign tasks adequately. The focus in this paper is on adaptivity to cognitively activate all learners at the individual level, and on teachers' abilities to allow for such…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Educational Research, Teacher Attitudes
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Petersson, Jöran; Sayers, Judy; Rosenqvist, Eva; Andrews, Paul – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
In this paper, motivated in part by evidence that Swedish teachers are sceptical of parents' abilities to offer appropriate support, we present an exploratory investigation of the activities Swedish parents initiate to facilitate their year-one (first grade) children's learning of mathematics. Data, derived from 25 semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents as Teachers, Children, Grade 1