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Research evidence on the significance of
drawing and emergent writing increasingly highlights their
importance. Graphicacy is a powerful means for exploring and
communicating thoughts, ideas and feelings and for solving problems
in all aspects of life. For young children it offers valuable and
significant means to explore the 'written' language of mathematics,
helping them to come to understand the abstract written language of
mathematics in personally meaningful ways.
The significance of graphicacy in
mathematics - which we term children's mathematical graphics
- is now recognised by many early childhood educators .The
importance of children's mathematical graphics is
acknowledged in England by the Department for Children, Schools and
Families (DCSF: 2008a;
DCSF: 2000b). Knowledge of children's mathematical graphics is
filtering through to influence understanding in universities and
local authorities, and having an impact on pedagogy in settings and
schools with children from birth to eight years - in the UK and
beyond. The DCSF highlights the significance of children's
mathematical graphics particularly for:
- Improving achievement in
Calculations
- Strengthening the provision for
problem solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN)
- Promoting children's confidence
in themselves as writers and as mathematical thinkers
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