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Parent-Initiated Activities in Support of Swedish Year-One Children's Learning of Mathematics: Age-Appropriate Complements to School?
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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
Head Start Teachers across a Decade: Beliefs, Characteristics, and Time Spent on Academics
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Walter, Melissa Clucas; Lippard, Christine N. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
We examined changes in teachers' beliefs regarding developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in 2000, 2003, 2006, and 2009 using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experience Survey. In addition, we examined how teacher education, credentials, and professional experience relate to beliefs about DAP and explored how these relationships…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Beliefs, Teacher Characteristics, Time Factors (Learning)
Designing K-2 Formative Assessment Tasks
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Reed, Kristen E.; Goldenberg, E. Paul – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
Formative assessment is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievements of intended instructional outcomes. Formative assessment means assessment embedded in instruction. That definition was adopted in 2006 by the Council of Chief State…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Mathematics Instruction
Teaching Mathematics in Early Childhood
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Moomaw, Sally – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
Children who learn math fundamentals in preschool and kindergarten have the best chance of later achievement in school--but too often, children don't get the effective early math instruction that makes all the difference. Now there's a core early childhood textbook that helps current and future educators teach the most critical math concepts to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Mathematics Education, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Activity-based Developmental Learning in a Collaborative First-Grade Classroom.
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Bolenbaugh, Susan – Young Children, 2000
Describes the use of experiential learning activities in a first grade classroom composed of learners at several levels, including some with learning disabilities and some with special speech and language needs. Presents learning activities to integrate mathematics with developmentally appropriate process writing, including a birthday graph, dice…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy, Experiential Learning
High/Scope Preschool Key Experiences: Classification, Seriation, and Number.
Koopmann, Linda – 2003
Noticing relationships between similar things and developing rules for treating things the same or differently, based on characteristics like color, size, shape, and texture provides the basis of beginning mathematics learning. Based on the view that teachers and parents of young children should provide children with age-appropriate words,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classification, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education