Teaching Mathematics as to be Meaningful - Foregrounding Play and Children's Perspectives Results from the POEM5 Conference, 2022

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2024
• Subjects: Education; Pre-school & kindergarten; Teacher training; Teaching of a specific subject; children's different understandings about counting; children's mathematical and computational thinking; children's understanding and cognitive skills; curricula for early childhood education; digital play and learning of mathematics; Early Childhood Education and Care; early childhood education teachers' competencies; Early Mathematics Education; educational technology in mathematics education; framework "Knowledge Quartet"; kindergarten teachers' play-responsive assessment; mathematizing; parents' views on mathematics education for young children; play-oriented early childhood education; Preschool, Kindergarten and Nursery; problem solving as a mathematical activity; Professional Development of teachers; the theory of mathematics learning and teaching
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 This open access book's theme is Teaching mathematics as to be meaningful - foregrounding children's play and perspectives. It discusses the relation between teachers, children and mathematical content within the context of play with a particular focus on the framing of these relations within this context, which is an important theme in the debate on whether teaching should be integrated with or separated from children's play. The work further addresses meaningfulness in the learning process, particularly from the child's perspective. Globally, most guidelines and curricula for early childhood education mention play as one of the key features for young children's learning. Still, there are quite different views on the definitions of play and in what ways play should become part of children's learning. The chapters of the book mirror the research topics presented at the fifth POEM conference in May 2022 divided into four sub-themes: Play and learning, Children's perspectives on mathematics, Teachers' competencies and Theorizing aspects of early mathematics education.