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We hope you find the re-vamped Pedagogy page
useful! We will be developing this over the next few months with
curriculum links to different countries in the UK and around the
world. There will also be specific sections on
multi-modality, play, drawing, emergent writing, thinking, talk,
schemas and creativity – all aspects
of young children’s learning that support their mathematical
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Amelie’s dice game
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Graphic of the month
Amelie’s dice game
This was a teacher-planned activity that provided open opportunities
for children to explore their thinking. Each pair of children had
two dice between them and were invited to ‘put something down of
paper’ to show what they got each time they rolled the dice. Amelie
was four and a half years old.
Amelie counted the dots each time she rolled the dice and carefully
made the same number of dots with her pen on the right side of her
paper. She has also used letters from her own name (particularly the
capital ‘A’) and her age number ‘4’. She noticed the marks and
symbols that some of her friends used and added several ‘+’ signs
and also a ‘=’ sign at the top of the paper, with some numerals
written within boxes. She ‘read’ the ‘e’ as ‘eight’ (a similar
shaped symbol).
Amelie was very proud of this piece – it is dynamic and full of
energy and spontaneity of a young child.
Letter to the TES,
June 16, 2006 |
