Abstract
The Making Numbers research Project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, has developed guidance for teachers of 3 to 9 year olds on the use of manipulatives in the teaching of arithmetic. The project, which consisted of a literature review, survey of teacher use and small-scale teaching investigations,identified key principles and issues for the use of manipulatives. This paper gives a brief overview of project findings, which are reported elsewhere, and discusses issues relating to the early years from the literature review.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education |
Subtitle of host publication | CERME10, February 1-5, 2017 |
Editors | Teresa Dooley, Ghislaine Gueudet |
Place of Publication | Dublin, Ireland |
Publisher | DCU Institute of Education and ERME |
Pages | 1845-1852 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Early childhood mathematics
- representations
- manipulatives
- patterns
- finger counting