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Carlsen, Martin; Erfjord, Ingvald; Hundeland, Per Sigurd; Monaghan, John – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
This paper focuses on kindergarten teachers' interactions with young children during mathematical learning activities involving the use of digital tools. We aim to characterise the teachers' roles and actions in these activities and extend considerations of teachers' orchestrations current in the research literature with regard to agency and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Mathematics Activities
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Krummheuer, Götz – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
This paper deals with one aspect of the endeavor to generate a theory of the development of mathematical thinking of children in the early years ages 3 to 10. By comparing two scenes, one from preschool and one from a first grade mathematics class, the relationship between diagrammatic and narrative argumentations among children and teachers is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills, Young Children
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Tarim, Kamuran – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency of cooperative learning on preschoolers' verbal mathematics problem-solving abilities and to present the observational findings of the related processes and the teachers' perspectives about the application of the program. Two experimental groups and one control group participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving