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Pedagogy - Children's Mathematical
Graphics
The success of children's mathematical
graphics depends on teachers and practitioners creating learning
cultures within which children choose to use graphicacy to explore,
make and communicate their mathematical thinking and meanings.
Maulfry's doctoral research:
Paper 1: findings and implications for
practice
Our previous research identified the
importance of:
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Focusing on young
children's meaning-making
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Collaborative
dialogue between adult and child / children enabling them to
negotiate and co-construct understandings
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Adults modelling
many aspects of communication through graphicacy, including
mathematics - in contexts that are personally meaningful to the
children
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Environments rich in
graphics - including those that are mathematical
We acknowledge the following points
as of vital importance for children's mathematical thinking:
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Democratic learning
cultures
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Respect for
children’s power, understandings and agency
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Acknowledging
children as true participants in mathematics
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Evaluations based on
documentation of children’s learning
We will add further
details of the findings of our doctoral researches to this page in
due course. Thank you for
your patience… |
