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Susan Sperry Smith began her career by working in the projects on the West Side of Chicago and teaching first grade. Later, she received her master’s degree in Learning Disabilities and eventually taught severely disabled children, ages 6-17, in a small town in Indiana. Thereafter, she moved to Milwaukee and completed her PhD in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and teaching junior high boys with learning disabilities for the Milwaukee Public Schools.
While at Cardinal Stritch University, Smith designed and taught the course, “Math for Young Children.” Half the semester was spent in an actual clinical setting where her students gained authentic experience by teaching in a local city school. Throughout her career, she led seminars and workshops on early childhood mathematics in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. She also attended a plethora of workshops on Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) sponsored by the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After twenty-six years of university teaching, she retired to Green Valley, AZ, to research and write.
Early Childhood Mathematics, Fifth Edition is the most widely used guide for educators on teaching mathematics to young children in Kindergarten through Third Grade. Practical and applied, this trusted and research-based book encourages teachers and teacher candidates to create an active learning environment that fosters curiosity, confidence, and persistence in children learning mathematics. Expert author, Susan Sperry Smith relies heavily on the most current research in the field, aligns core content to the NCTM Standards, presents information on Cognitive Guided Instruction (CGI) and necessary adaptations for students with special needs. The book covers the most important key concepts for teaching math in the early years with three over-arching themes: knowledge of important mathematical relationships, number sense, and the ability to solve problems. The fifth edition builds on the reliability and excellency of previous editions with new information on meeting the educational needs of all students, the importance of STEM careers beginning in early childhood education, more activities, thematic unit, and curricular tools, multicultural literature and activities, a comprehensive update on The Common Core State Standards, NAEP, and the new DAP Position Statement.
Chapter 1: Foundations, Principles, and Standards
Chapter 2: Planning for Success: A Good Beginning
Chapter 3: Assessment
Chapter 4: The Language of Math: Communication and Representation
Chapter 5: Early Math Concepts: Matching, Classification, Comparing and Ordering or Seriation
Chapter 6: Developing Number Sense
Chapter 7: Understanding Our Place Value System
Chapter 8: Data Analysis: Graphing and Probability
Chapter 9: Early Algebra: Pattern and Function
Chapter 10: Problem Solving: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 11: Problem Solving: Multiplication and Division
Chapter 12: Geometry: Space and Shape
Chapter 13: Measurement
Chapter 14: Thematic Units and The Project Approach
Appendices
Index
Aligned to the NCTM Standards, this new edition of a trusted text encourages teacher candidates to create an active learning environment that fosters curiosity, confidence, and persistence in children learning mathematics. Because the knowledge of important mathematical relationships, number sense, and the ability to solve problems are three key ingredients to the successful acquisition of math in the early years, this book pays special attention to helping teachers foster those skills and ways of thinking.
The fifth edition builds on the reliability and excellency of previous editions with new information on meeting the educational needs of all students, the importance of STEM careers beginning in early childhood education, more activities, thematic unit, and curricular tools, multicultural literature and activities, a comprehensive update on The Common Core State Standards, NAEP, and the new DAP Position Statement.
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The fifth edition contains new information on meeting the educational needs of all students, the importance of STEM careers beginning in early childhood education, more activities, thematic unit, and curricular tools, multicultural literature and activities, a comprehensive update on The Common Core State Standards, NAEP, and the new DAP Position Statement.
· Adaptation for Children with a Special Need. This new section, featured after every “Ready-Set-Math” Activity, features 35-45 new and separate ideas for teaching the youngest of students with exceptionalities, aiding teachers in meeting the educational goals of every type of student they encounter in the early childhood classroom.
· A Science Connection. This new section, added to most of the learning chapters this edition, integrates math and science learning for early childhood, giving particular attention to the importance of STEM careers beginning in early childhood.
· New Expanded Coverage of the Preschool Years. The fifth edition covers a wider scope on teaching preschoolers beginning math concepts with more prominent and new activities, stories, and a unique assessment of preschooler, Emily, age 3 years and 5 months. New coverage of the Preschool Years is located in Chapter 3 as well as throughout the book.
· New Comprehensive Update on The Common Core State Standards, NAEP, the new DAP Position Statement. Includes new math software, teacher websites and more prominently featured in Chapter 1 and throughout the text.
· New, Notable Inclusion of Multicultural Literature. The link between books to math and cultural activities furthers instruction for students, making the content more relevant to all areas of learning. Multicultural literature, such as Wangari’s Trees for Peace, can be found throughout the text, and more specifically in Chapter 4.
· The Project Approach. This new edition features The Project Approach in Chapter 14 with the thematic unit “Forcing Indoor Bulbs” for Third Grade. The progression of literature, writing, math, and science in a teacher/child planned unit over several weeks and months adds hands-on use of curricular tools and beauty to the darkest months of the year.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Susan Sperry Smith began her career by working in the projects on the West Side of Chicago and teaching first grade. Later, she received her master’s degree in Learning Disabilities and eventually taught severely disabled children, ages 6-17, in a small town in Indiana. Thereafter, she moved to Milwaukee and completed her PhD in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and teaching junior high boys with learning disabilities for the Milwaukee Public Schools.
While at Cardinal Stritch University, Smith designed and taught the course, “Math for Young Children.” Half the semester was spent in an actual clinical setting where her students gained authentic experience by teaching in a local city school. Throughout her career, she led seminars and workshops on early childhood mathematics in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. She also attended a plethora of workshops on Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) sponsored by the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. After twenty-six years of university teaching, she retired to Green Valley, AZ, to research and write.