Primary Mathematics EDM312
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“Use your reading and classroom experience to provide a critical analysis of the potential of teaching activities you would use to develop children’s learning of reasoning. Include within your analysis how you would include discussion and ICT.”
Reasoning falls under the ‘Using and applying’ heading of the National Strategies guidance (DfES,2006) this covers ‘Making decisions, reasoning and generalising about numbers and shapes; and problems involving ‘real life’, money or measures’ (p3). This assignment will discuss activities which develop children’s abilities to reason. In addition it will consider the underlying skills required to develop children’s confidence and understanding of
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Sudoku is an additional inductive problem, requiring children to work systematically and logically to find the answer, furthermore developing their perseverance and determination. However Lynce and Ouakine(2006,p.1) stated ‘the line of reasoning required [in Sudoku]to reach completion may be difficult and each puzzle has a unique solution and does not require the use of trial and error or guessing’ some children with poor attention spans or patience may struggle to complete the puzzles. The Using and Applying Guidance Paper (DfES,2006) believe when children are acquiring problem solving skills they should begin with inductive reasoning activities as they tend to have a set answer and progress to deductive reasoning activities which involve a child investigating and thinking logically to prove something true or false.
Stimulating and challenging problem solving activities elevate children’s ability to reason. ‘The postage problem’ is an inductive activity which although it requires investigation, the problem has a set outcome. The children work independently to answer word problems about posting packages using a Royal mail postage pricing list this allows the children to develop their skills of deduction and use the information to draw a conclusion. However some argue that word problems put children who are not confident readers at a disadvantage and could impede
Within mathematics instruction, strategies for solving basic operations are strong and systemic. However, students in the intermediate grades struggle with finding and using reliable strategies for solving word problems. The complexity of language that’s used in a mathematical context makes it difficult for students to have a confident approach. Therefore, action research is being conducted on how reading comprehension can be dove-tailed with word-problem-solving in an elementary classroom. Action research will be used to make a positive change in the
This section focuses on the standard, “Children demonstrate strategies for reasoning and problem solving” (Early Childhood Iowa, 2012, p. 99). Through this standard, a child will: show interest in and find a variety of solutions to questions, tasks, or problems; recognize and solve problems through active exploration, including trial and error, and through interactions and discussions with peers and adults; share ideas or make suggestions of how to solve a problem presented by another person. Adults must support these benchmarks by providing opportunities for each child to try new ways of using materials, creating a safe environment with developmentally appropriate materials that offer an appropriate amount of stimulation and choice for each child to explore and play with, allowing each child time to process experiences and information, talking through problems with children to model problem-solving, holding class meetings to discuss issues that may occur and have the children brainstorm solutions, and choosing appropriate materials that promote creativity, self-expression, number, and emerging literacy skills (Early Childhood Iowa,
As the pupils come more mature, they can be given tasks that require them to make their own decisions and choices. The pupils will need to be given guidance as to how they can think the process through to help them to do this.
Problem Solving, Numeracy and Reasoning: Helping to expand their knowledge of problem solving using stories, games, role play, singing and games. Making the child feel easy talking about and understanding the language of reasoning and problem solving.
There are some considerations in terms of children’s intellectual development that teachers should keep in mind. First, education is exploration. This is where teachers allow children to interact with the environment by providing rich experiences and environment. Second, children do not think like adults. This is where children have
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Children at **** **** frequently engage in experiential activities where they are encouraged to explore indoor and outdoor environments and gain first-hand experience of recognising materials; making comparisons / recognising similarities and differences; estimating and predicting; counting; sequencing; weighing and measuring etc. Engaging in relevant discussions that provide an opportunity for the children to build their skills, increase their knowledge and extend their mathematical vocabulary is an essential part of the learning process.
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In the guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage, sustained shared thinking is an element within the Characteristic of Effective Learning (COEL). These underpin all the other areas of learning and development (Early Education, 2012) in the EYFS, which means that these are ways in which children learn. The way in which it works is the characteristic of effective learning are the ‘how’ of children’s learning, to the ‘what’ in the areas of learning and development. The COEL are split into three different areas being ; playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically.
It will be argued that my position of using an outdoor setting to support children’s learning in Mathematics, specifically to achieve mastery
It's is written in history that the field of Math and Science seems to be a more male dominant field. The evidence shows that years ago women were discouraged from pursuing the field. We learned about the Darwin theory which is based on the fact that men were inferior to women. A theory that to a point made society actually believes that because men's brains were bigger they were smarter than females. This matter on top of a society that already didn't treat male and female equal created more challenges for women to succeed. Another main reason was that education for women wasn't as accessible as it was to men. Women didn't have the resources and at times weren't allowed to attend the schools available to men.
When discussing numeracy planning, it is important to make sure that the lower ability children are
Both Berk (2010) and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (2012) claim that by this age an adolescent should be thinking in more abstract, systematic and logical ways. Therefore, according to the articles researched for this issue and the behavior exhibited by this adolescent would indicate a delay in cognitive development. This delay not only affects his personal reasoning, but also has delayed his cognitive development to solve hypothetical problems, thus, lower his ability solve situations not yet experienced. Remaining in the concrete operational
A logical early education has a great impact on an individual’s life. In comparison, these two theories in the laboratory survey of the control experiment emphasized that the scientific query method was similar.(Aldenir Araújo 2012).I have a 4 years old niece, her illogical thinking is reflected in life through experiment. In her classification ability, she cannot understand that an object can be divided into a variety of ways. For example, she calls all plants with leaves “trees,” or all people with short hair “boy.” In contrast, however in Early Childhood, Adolescence and Their Significance,Piaget focused on cognitive development through psychological processes, which depends on asking questions and solving problem. Erikson focused on personality development; thus he draws conclusions no only questions but observation and clinical methods.
Within mathematics instruction, strategies for solving basic operations are strong and systemic. However, students in the intermediate grades struggle with finding and using reliable strategies for solving word problems. The complexity of language that’s used in a mathematical context makes it difficult for students to have a confident approach. Therefore, research is being conducted on how reading comprehension can be dove-tailed with word-problem-solving in an elementary classroom.