Playful Mathematics
For children 3 to 7
Helen J. Williams
"Playful Mathematics" is a must-read for early years teachers who struggle to make mathematics relevant and engaging for their young learners. This book empowers teachers to see the learning in children's natural mathematical play and outlines recent research on how children best learn mathematics. With this book, practitioners will learn why preparation works better than planning and why "thinking space" matters more than they think.
Publish Date
2022-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
2022-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
5
ISBN
9781529755152
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2022-08-05T09:56:20.000Z
So many great insights from this book:
- 'Playfulness is the difference between lining up some pennies and asking children to count them and have a heap of pennies and saying I wonder how we might count those pennies?' – source