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Direct linkLukas Schmitt; Anke Weber; Dominik Weber; Miriam Leuchter – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Promoting children's science knowledge by adequate measures such as guided or free play is a cardinal goal of preschool. However, there is considerable variability in preschool teachers' instructional quality in block play, which might be associated with children's domain-specific science skills but also their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
Manches, Andrew; O'Malley, Claire – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
This article focuses on how the representational properties of manipulatives affect the strategies children employ in problem solving. Two studies examined the effect of physical materials on 4-7-year-old children's problem solving strategies in a numerical (i.e., additive composition) task. The first study showed how children not only identified…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Object Manipulation, Young Children, Problem Solving
