Early Childhood Education and Care

Running Head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE 0
Early Childhood Education
and Care

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Cognitive and Mathematical Development.....................................................................................2
Birth to two Years........................................................................................................................3
Two to three years.......................................................................................................................3
Three to five Years......................................................................................................................4
Concepts to be explored...................................................................................................................5
Birth to two Years........................................................................................................................5
Two to three years.......................................................................................................................5
Three to Five Years.....................................................................................................................6
Teaching Pedagogies.......................................................................................................................7
Recording and Assessment..............................................................................................................8
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
There are various concepts to be implemented from the early stage of the childhood. The
concepts are implemented to develop their brain and required to be in the stage of developing.
The manner the concepts are being explored during the development phase of the children. With
every passage of year the growth structure of the children changes in accordance to their motor
skills. These toddlers are using early math skills all over their daily routines and activities they
perform. The relevance of this kind is being obtained for the stage of schools. The discussion
about the related concepts is being researched below in reference to the progressive years. This is
a researched project in the context of the early childhood education and care, which includes the
mathematical operations in the daily routine and working of the child’s learning.
Cognitive and Mathematical Development
The learning process for children is endless and ongoing. Each developmental stage of
the children cognitive process progress towards the generation of outcomes in a variety of ways
however all are meaningful equally. The process of learning mathematics among children is
considered a part of cognition, which cannot be always predictable or linear. They can percept
different things in different meaningful ways (Critten, Campbell, & Farran, 2018). The
methodology planned with each child of different age usually planned by keeping in mind the
probable outcomes. Understanding mathematics by the student is considered a part of the
cognitive process as it depends on the self-perception and analysis of the way of reaching the

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outcome. According to the developmental milestones of EYLF (Early Years Learning
Frameworks), there are suggestions given by the governing body of Australia, which can be
followed by parents in letting their child learn new things in course of their life, especially in
their early growth stage (DEEWR, 2019). The alternative solutions given in EYLF are just the
suggestions; any person can just take references from those suggestions and act accordingly.
From the EYLF document, the analysis of cognitive and mathematical development of the child
at their various growth stages is done in the following lines:
Birth to two Years
The parents are suggested to follow the approach of sensitive handling while dealing with
their newborn baby. As the baby is below two years, he or she percept the outer world in the
following ways:
 Start learning through their Sensory Experiences
 Try to look and touch the things with different patterns, shapes, colors, and textures
 Exploring and Mounting of Objects
 Repeating of actions after perception of interesting results, etc
It can be understood from this that at this stage the children develop the above-mentioned
cognition and try to touch things with different shapes and sizes. This generates a sense of
geometry in them from this early stage (Aunio, Niemivirta, & Tervaniemi, 2019).
Two to three years
Until two years, the children start understanding and sensing the dangerous things, shapes
and outlines, small numbers, etc. when they enter in the age of three they tend to have following
cognitive developmental milestone: