Preschool children's collective mathematical reasoning during free outdoor play

Sumpter, Lovisa; Hedefalk, Maria

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“…This limited understanding of preschool teachers' emotions will diminish our ability to support in-service teachers but also students in teacher education (Thiel & Jenssen, 2018). This is true in Sweden too especially when considering that this is a country where preschool teaching is very much a profession in change (Sheridan, Williams, Sandberg & Vuorinen, 2011), although still differ with a focus on play instead of the trend of 'schoolification' that happen in a large part of the Western world (Sumpter & Hedefalk, 2015;Waller, Sandeseter, Wyver, Ärlemalm-Hagsér & Maynard, 2010). The aim here is to study Swedish preschool educators' emotional directions towards the subject.…”

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“…The first preschool curriculum that governs all preschools came in 1998, but recently it has been revised. The content is formulated as aims to strive for in a playful setting regarding competencies such as problem solving and mathematical reasoning more than a list of specific mathematical knowledge, concepts and transformations that must be achieved and measured (for more information about preschool in Sweden, see Sumpter & Hedefalk, 2015).…”

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Preschool Educators’ Emotional Directions Towards Mathematics

Sumpter

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Int J of Sci and Math Educ

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This paper investigates Swedish preschool educators' emotional directions towards mathematics. A questionnaire was answered by 157 preschool educators and their responses were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The majority of preschool educators stated that they are positive towards mathematics. Regarding the hypotheses that education or years of experience have a positive impact on how you feel about a subject, the statistical analysis did not confirm these hypotheses. However, the results from the qualitative analysis suggest that some preschool educators change their feelings towards mathematics with time, experience, more education and/or new setting such as a new curriculum. They expressed a dynamic view where they previously have been more negative towards mathematics but now are much more positive. Some implications are that compared with the reputation, preschool educators express more positive feelings, and that targeted education is a contributing factor.

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Preschool Educators’ Emotional Directions Towards Mathematics

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2019

Int J of Sci and Math Educ

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“…At other universities there have also been researchers working with early learning, in school and pre-school, such as Maria Johansson at Luleå who has also collaborated with researchers from Malmö University (e.g., Johansson, Lange, Meaney, Riesbeck, & Wernberg, 2014). Lovisa Sumpter at Stockholm University has also worked with pre-school children (e.g., Sumpter & Hedefalk, 2015). Another example is Jorryt van Bommel at Karlstad and Hanna Palmér at Linnaeus University who have been working with young children's exploration of probability (Van Bommel & Palmér, 2016).…”

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Didactics of Mathematics as a Research Field in Scandinavia

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2019

European Traditions in Didactics of Mathematics

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This chapter presents an overview of the development of didactics of mathematics as a research domain in the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This presentation is linked to the development of the school system and teacher education. Some important trends that have been of particular importance to each of the countries will be described and an account of the current situation will be given. At the end there is a section about collaborative projects that have taken place in the whole Nordic and Baltic area.

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“…The National Council of Teacher of Mathematics (NCTM, 2000) stated five necessary mathematical abilities, namely problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representations. Mathematical reasoning is the main part of several sections that aim to describe mathematical thinking and allow students to use all other mathematical skills (Sumpter & Hedefalk, 2015). Mathematical reasoning is imaginative, so it is necessary to use several explanations to compile real experiences and turn them into abstract thinking models (English, 2013).…”

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Educational game design to improve reasoning skills

Novianti

Suparman

2019

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Mathematical reasoning is a modern learning media that is suitable for improving mathematical thinking. Problem Based Learning is one learning model that can help enhance reasoning. This article aims to design multimedia learning in the form of educational games to enhance students' mathematical reasoning. This research is a type of development research using the Multimedia Development Life Cycle model. The procedure includes six stages, namely concept, design, collecting materials, assembly, testing, and distribution while this research is limited to the design stage. The subjects of the study consisted of teachers and students class 8 of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Kalasan. The research instruments were observation guides, interview guidelines, and documentation sheets. Observation guidelines are used to retrieve student characteristics data while interview guidelines are used to determine the characteristics of students from the teacher's perspective during the learning process and documentation sheet to get data on curriculum implementation that runs at school. Data were analyzed using qualitative techniques. This research resulted in the design of educational games that were under the needs analysis of students. This educational game is designed to improve students' mathematical reasoning. This research can be extended to collecting, assembly, testing and distribution materials.

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Preschool children's collective mathematical reasoning during free outdoor play

Cited by 28 publications

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Preschool Educators’ Emotional Directions Towards Mathematics

Preschool Educators’ Emotional Directions Towards Mathematics

Didactics of Mathematics as a Research Field in Scandinavia

Educational game design to improve reasoning skills

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