Importance of Mathematics in Early Childhood

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MATHEMATICS IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM
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Importance of Mathematics in early childhood:
Mathematics deals with the methodological application of various matter in everyday life.
It makes the processes and the works engaged with life to be orderly and also prevents problems
and chaos as well (Cue, 2017). Mathematics should therefore be practiced widely across all
curriculums of school and many educational institutions, which will be motivating the students to
bring in a sense of confidence and also make their lives better by developing certain skills from
life to make their lives easier and engaging. Mathematics helps in students to develop and
generate certain attributes among the student’s like- power of reasoning, creativity, abstract or
spatial thinking, critical thinking, problem-solving ability and even effective communication
skills (Tella, 2017).
Teaching of Mathematics in Daily Lives:
The ideas and the involvement of the learning factors will help the students to learn new
ideas and enhance new modes of skills and attributes that will help them to succeed further in
their lives as well. Thus the students will be needing the education processes, this will help their
brains to develop, help them tell time, help with the dealing of the finances, helps developing the
problem solving skills as well as generate good analyzing skills also (Chamandar, et al., 2019).
Thus the importance of mathematics is high in the lives of individuals and there are various ways
in which a student can be taught mathematics so that he or she may be able to develop the skills
and become a better person. There are many methods and guidelines by which one can be good
at mathematics. The important factors that needs to be analyze before teaching mathematics to a
student are-
 Whether the student is attentive,

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 Whether the student is serious in class,
 Whether the lessons can be perceived by the student easily, (Hoth, et al., 2016)
 Whether the student is intelligent enough to understand the processes swiftly or
needs more time to understand the problems,
 Whether the student is able to understand the importance and develop the mental
status to complete the tasks that are assigned to them.
Development of Teaching Approach in Mathematics:
Mathematics is a varied genre. There are lot of ideas that needs to be analyzed as it is
being taught in the class. Previously several ideas were included as it was involved in the lessons
from the previous days. There are several factors that are kept under the observation for the
inclusion of the students in the class to generalize the importance and the acceptance of
Mathematics (Loong & Herbert, 2018). The teaching methods should not be lined with the
computation at the initial stages but should be leading to the enhancement of the ideas for
mathematics to the students. There are various ideas that are involved for engaging the inclusion
of mathematics in the curriculum of the students that includes certain traditional methods of
instructing the children in mathematics (Levinsen & Sørensen, 2018, November). The teaching
in mathematics needs to be developed based on which certain problem solving cases,
characterizing and also understanding the involvement of several structure and plans as well. The
interdependence of the beliefs and the capability of perceiving ideas and maintaining certain
forms and frames for the propagation of knowledge, regarding mathematics. The reflection of the
teacher’s understanding towards the engagement and involvement of mathematics of the teachers
that will eventually help the students to develop interests and take up mathematics as an
engaging and fun learning subject. In modern and contemporary days the involvement of the

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computational tools have become a vital aspect in developing and teaching mathematics to
students. Certain aspects that the teacher needs to develop the students while teaching
mathematics to the students are-
 Increasing concentration of the students,
 Developing the notion of studying mathematics to be easy and fun, (Hill, 2016)
 Engaging mathematics to the different phases and stages of the lives of the
students,
The overall goal to teach mathematics in class is to help the students to engage
themselves in the learning processes of mathematics and understanding the importance of the
subject. The impact of the teachers on the students for developing the computational roles in an
individual is a vital factor (Povey, Boylan & Adams, 2019). The teachers is the only person who
can enhance the development and the inclusion of ideas for the engagement of the students in the
knowing and being involved with the subject. Certain ideas methods that can be used and
idealized by the teacher to engage the children to learning Mathematics are-
 Understanding certain negative numbers,
 Multiplication of the numbers by understanding their meanings,
 Developing proper notions regarding the various types and the kinds of numbers
that can be classified regarding certain attributes etc. (Huey-Min, 2017).