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Karen De Keersmaeker; Patrick Onghena; Wim Van Dooren – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Mathematical language (or the content-specific words in mathematics) has repeatedly shown to be related to mathematical abilities in preschool and in the early grades of primary education. Research in this field has predominantly focused on young children's quantitative and spatial language. At the same time, recent research has discovered that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Students, Academic Language
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Whitin, Phyllis; Whitin, David J. – Young Children, 2011
The habit of looking for patterns, the skills to find them, and the expectation that patterns have explanations is an essential mathematical habit of mind for young children (Goldenberg, Shteingold, & Feurzeig 2003, 23). Work with patterns leads to the ability to form generalizations, the bedrock of algebraic thinking, and teachers must nurture…
Descriptors: Investigations, Young Children, Grade 3, Algebra