Early Mathematics Learning

Table of Contents

0-1 Introduction

Christiane Benz, Birgit Brandt, Ulrich Kortenkamp, Götz Krummheuer,  Silke Ladel and Rose Vogel       

0-2 A dance of instruction with construction in mathematics education

Norma Presmeg

1-1 It is quite confusing isn't it? - Implications of a National policy on mathematics teaching on the dance of instruction and construction of knowledge in the teaching of place value through manipulatives

Judy Sayers and Patti Barber

1-2 Mathematical teaching moments: between instruction and construction

Troels Lange, Tamsin Meaney, Eva Riesbeck, Anna Wernberg



1-3 "I have a little job for you" - Instructional practices in interaction processes between kindergarten teachers and young children in Germany

Birgit Brandt



1-4 The Relationship between cultural Expectation and the local Realization of a Mathematics learning Environment

Götz Krummheuer



1-5 The Reflection of Spatial Thinking on the Interactional Niche in the Family - Interactional Niche in the Development of Mathematical Thinking (NMT) in Familial Situations   

Ergi Acar Bayraktar



2-1 The Roots of Mathematising in Young Children's Play Bert van Oers



2-2 Non-canonical Solutions in Children-Adult Interactions-A Case Study of the Emergence of Mathematical Creativity

Melanie Münz



2-3 The Interplay between Gesture and Speech - Second Graders solve Mathematical Problems 

Melanie Huth



2-4 Children's Constructions in the Domain of Geometric Competencies (in two different instructional settings)

Andrea Simone Maier, Christiane Benz



2-5 Identifying quantities - Children's constructions to compose collections from parts or decompose collections into parts

Christiane Benz



3-1 Children's engagement

Ulrich Kortenkamp is professor of mathematics and mathematics education at the University of Education Karlsruhe. His research interests lie at the interface between mathematics, computer science and didactics of the sciences. Götz Krummheuer is a professor in the department of mathematics at the Institute for the Teachng of Mathematics at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.