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The main CMN focus this month is to gather comments regarding
the Review of the Frameworks for the teaching of mathematics
(National Numeracy Strategy’s framework) -
Primary National Strategy: Renewing the Frameworks for teaching
literacy and mathematics.
Our evidence from questionnaires with
over 500 teachers in England is that the teaching and learning of
‘written’ mathematics for young children (especially in Foundation
and Yr. 1) is insufficiently clear and with very limited examples.
Many teachers feel that there is a great deal of confusion on
teaching this important aspect of the curriculum.
Please email us with your comments on
matters relating to the early teaching and learning of written
mathematics.
Click here for
January 2006 news. |
Graphic of the month
Louisa adding
strawberries
Louisa (5.1 years) was adding the
strawberries she’d put in two small dishes (which she would then
eat). She combined pictorial and written graphical forms with
symbolic (the numeral ‘6’). She read this as a narrative “two and
four more altogether 6”. She has used (written) words as she
experiments with the role and function of symbols.
NEW on the
website! Information on the
curriculum in England, and some of the difficulties young children
and their teachers experience with early ‘written’ mathematics |
