Learning and Teaching Early Math

Douglas H. Clements is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood, Mathematics, and Computer Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Julie Sarama is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Young Children and Mathematics Learning

2. Quantity, Number, and Subitizing

3. Verbal and Object Counting

4. Comparing, Ordering, and Estimating

5. Arithmetic: Early Addition and Subtraction and Counting Strategies

6. Arithmetic: Composition of Number, Place Value, and Multidigit Addition and Subtraction

7. Spatial Thinking

8. Shape

9. Composition and Decomposition of Shapes

10. Geometric Measurement: Length

11. Geometric Measurement: Area, Volume, and Angle

12. Other Content Domains

13. Mathematical Processes

14. Cognition, Affect, and Equity

15. Early Childhood Mathematics Education: Contexts and Curricula

16. Instructional Practices and Pedagogical Issues

Notes

References

Index