Mathematics Through Play in the Early Years / Edition 3

by Kate Tucker

Overview

Updated to include the revised Early Years Foundation Stage, this new edition comes with more activities and examples for playful teaching and covers all the latest topics in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446269770
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/20/2014
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Kate Tucker is an early years teacher, trainer and writer based in Exeter; she has over 20 years of experience, and has written widely on early years mathematics and Foundation Stage practice.

Table of Contents

Play and Problem Solving
Creating and Using a Mathematical Environment
Creative Recording and Mathematical Graphics
Counting and Using Number
Pattern
Shape and Space
Measurement
Planning, Organizing and Assessing Independent Play
Parents as Partners: Involving Parents in Mathematics and Play

Editorial Reviews

For those of us who feel they have a ‘mental block’, or natural aversion to maths, this book will be of enormous help. Grounded in the latest research about how children become effective learners, focusing particularly on mathematics, it is packed full of tried and tested, new and innovative, mathematical ideas, activities and experiences.

Martine Horvath

This is a practical and inspiring publication packed full of ideas for all the key areas within an early years setting to support maths learning and development in young children. A great read for all champions of maths.

Nursery News

'This second edition, fully updated in line with the EYFS, has been written to help practitioners to create playful contexts to support children's independent mathematical play and learning. It provides ideas and activities but also guides the reader to sources of further information to consolidate their own subject knowledge of mathematics...The emphasis in the text and in the examples provided in this well-illustrated, informative and very practical book is on children aged from four to eight years old. This makes Mathematics Through Play in the Early Years particularly useful for students and teachers of children in Reception classes and at Key Stage 1' -
Early Years Update

Praise for the first edition:

'This is a very welcome book. Kate Tucker is an enthusiast, with lots of experience in teaching young children, and in thinking about how best they should learn maths' - Nursery World

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