Website visitors
The number of visitors
to our website grows each month includes visitors from around the
world. In the past month the top 10 counties (highest visitor
numbers) were – in order: the United
Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Canada, Cyprus, New Zealand, India,
Brunei Darussalam, USA and Argentina.
Membership of the Children’s
Mathematics Network continues to grow and we are delighted to
welcome members from Australia, India, New
Zealand, Nigeria and the USA, in addition to members from
the United Kingdom!
Australia calling!
We welcome news and
feedback from members and visitors (and of course if you are just
visiting, you may decide you’d like to become a member too).
Additionally we would like to add sections from members in specific
countries: so, to make a start we would welcome
news from Australia! Please
email us with news of what is happening in your state in Early
Years education generally; links to relevant websites; recent
reports; E.Y. curricula including mathematics and related
aspects - drawing; early (emergent) writing; thinking; play and
creativity. We’re aware that there is growing interest in
multi-modality in Australia and maybe you have some perspectives
on this? |
Click here for April’s news
Graphic of the month –
see below.
Frances and the train
Our class of 4 – 6 year olds had
travelled by train to visit an old ‘pannier’ market in a town in the
north of the county and on the return journey our carriage was very
crowded. The following day Aaron commented “I bet there were a
million people on the train!”
After some discussion about how we
might find out, Aaron phoned the railway station. Returning to the
class he told his friends that there had been 7 carriages on our
train and 75 seats in each carriage. A number of children were
intrigued by this large quantity and wanted to find out how many
there were altogether. Each chose their own ways to work this out
(with resources or through representing their thinking on paper).
Frances explored a number of ways
before drawing representations of the seats in one carriage (below).
She self-checked and found that she had drawn one too many and
crossed it out. In order to represent the remaining 6 carriages,
Frances asked if she could photocopy her first carriage – an
interesting solution using repeated addition. Frances was 6 years
and 1 month at the time. |
