Chapter 13. Mathematics

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Chapter 13. Mathematics
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Precursors of Mathematics Learning in Young
Children

• Spatial Relations
• Sense of Body Image
• Visual-motor Visual Perceptual Abilities
• Concepts of Direction and Time
• Memory Abilities

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Information Processing Problems in Mathematics

• Attention
• Visual-spatial Processing
• Auditory Processing
• Memory Retrieval
• Motor Problems

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Progressing from Concrete to Abstract

• Concrete Level
• Use Real Objects
• Representational Level
• Use Graphic Symbols
• Abstract Level
• Use Numbers

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Constructive Learning

• Children learn when they construct their own
  solutions to math problems
• I hear and I forget.
• I see and I remember.
• I do and I understand.
• Chinese Proverb

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Common Math Errors

• Place Value Computation Facts
• 75 63 6 9
• - 27 18
  x 8 x 7
• 58 71
  46 62
• Using the Wrong Working from Right
• Process to Left
• 6 15 35
  56
• x 2 - 3
  81 71
• 8 18 17 28