MATHEMATICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

Running head: MATHEMATICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
MATHEMATICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
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Abstract
The main objective of imparting education during the early stages is to make the child familiar
with the basic concepts and ideas about the subject. It is therefore very important to create ways
to develop the lesson plans in a manner that creates impact in the child’s mind and provides the
student with a clear picture of the topic being taught. Mathematics being a critical subject
requires adequate skills that are to be developed at an early age through several practices that
allow the child to think and analyse the basic concepts of mathematics that we experience every
day. This paper will look into the theories of learning mathematics during early age and develop
lesson plans that can be implemented to impart mathematical learning at an early age. The paper
will finally conclude with a reflective assessment of the implementation of the study plan and
note the outcomes derived out of the implementation of the lesson plan.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................5
Theories in the learning of Mathematics.........................................................................................6
Piaget’s Theory of Child Development.......................................................................................6
Sensori-motor stage.................................................................................................................7
Pre-Operational stage...............................................................................................................7
Concrete Operational stage......................................................................................................8
Formal Operational Stage........................................................................................................8
Jerome Burner’s Theory of Three Modes of Representation......................................................9
Enactive mode.........................................................................................................................9
Iconic mode...........................................................................................................................10
Symbolic mode......................................................................................................................10
Lesson Plan for Teaching Mathematics to preschoolers...............................................................10
LESSON PLAN FOR THE AGE GROUP 4-5 YEARS...........................................................11
Learning outcomes:...............................................................................................................11
Lesson plan for 6 Years.................................................................................................................13
Simple addition..............................................................................................................................13
Understanding the concept of greater and smaller........................................................................14
Implementation and assessment of the Lesson Plan......................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14

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