Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities
This study focuses on adults who are neither preschool teachers nor professional caregivers and investigates their beliefs regarding the importance of engaging young children with numerical activities. It also examines the types of numerical activities adults report having observed children engaging...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8122183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10063-y |
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author | Levenson, Esther S. Barkai, Ruthi Tirosh, Dina Tsamir, Pessia |
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description | This study focuses on adults who are neither preschool teachers nor professional caregivers and investigates their beliefs regarding the importance of engaging young children with numerical activities. It also examines the types of numerical activities adults report having observed children engaging with, as well as the types of activities they propose as a way for promoting counting, enumerating, recognizing number symbols, and number composition and decomposition. Findings showed that participants believed to a great extent that engaging young children with numerical activities is important. Most reported that they had observed children engaging with at least some numerical activity. In general, participants relayed more activities and more detailed activities when suggesting activities for each competency, than they did when reporting observed activities. Findings also suggested a need to enhance adults’ knowledge regarding the necessity to promote verbal counting, separate from object counting, as well as to increase adults’ awareness of number composition and decomposition. For mathematics educators wishing to plan workshops for adults, this study offers a method for investigating adults’ knowledge of early numerical activities, as well as a starting point with which to plan appropriate workshops. |
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spelling | pubmed-81221832021-05-17 Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities Levenson, Esther S. Barkai, Ruthi Tirosh, Dina Tsamir, Pessia Educ Stud Math Article This study focuses on adults who are neither preschool teachers nor professional caregivers and investigates their beliefs regarding the importance of engaging young children with numerical activities. It also examines the types of numerical activities adults report having observed children engaging with, as well as the types of activities they propose as a way for promoting counting, enumerating, recognizing number symbols, and number composition and decomposition. Findings showed that participants believed to a great extent that engaging young children with numerical activities is important. Most reported that they had observed children engaging with at least some numerical activity. In general, participants relayed more activities and more detailed activities when suggesting activities for each competency, than they did when reporting observed activities. Findings also suggested a need to enhance adults’ knowledge regarding the necessity to promote verbal counting, separate from object counting, as well as to increase adults’ awareness of number composition and decomposition. For mathematics educators wishing to plan workshops for adults, this study offers a method for investigating adults’ knowledge of early numerical activities, as well as a starting point with which to plan appropriate workshops. Springer Netherlands 2021-05-15 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8122183/ /pubmed/34934231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10063-y Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Levenson, Esther S. Barkai, Ruthi Tirosh, Dina Tsamir, Pessia Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title | Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title_full | Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title_fullStr | Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title_short | Exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
title_sort | exploring adults’ awareness of and suggestions for early childhood numerical activities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8122183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34934231 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10649-021-10063-y |
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