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Yuwen Ma; Marilyn Fleer; Liang Li; Yuejiu Wang – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Previous studies have emphasised that play can promote children's learning of mathematics. However, little research has been directed towards understanding how collective imaginary play motivates children's mathematical learning. Informed by the cultural-historical conception of play and motives, this paper examines how Conceptual PlayWorld (CPW)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Play
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Carlsen, Martin – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2013
The aim of this study is to analyse how a kindergarten teacher orchestrated a mathematical activity involving a fairy tale. Taking a sociocultural perspective on learning and development, naturally occurring talk-in-interaction has been analysed in order to scrutinise the subtleties of the orchestration. The fairy tale "Goldilocks and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts