Editors:
Provides developmentally appropriate guided instruction for mathematics learning in early childhood
Addresses practical implications for home childcare curricula that are grounded in research
Includes a developmental framework for the fit between the home numeracy environment and mathematical development
Examines early childhood mathematical skill development across different cultures?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Included in the coverage:
- Ways to optimize home numeracy environments.
- Individual differences in numerical abilities.
- Cross-cultural comparisons and ways to scaffold young children's mathematical skills.
- Mathematics and language in the home environment.
- Center-based and family-based child care.
- Games and home numeracy practice.
Early Childhood Mathematics Skill Development in the Home Environment is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in infancy and early childhood development, child and school psychology, early childhood education, social work, mathematics education, and educational psychology.
Keywords
- Assessment of mathematical progress during early childhood
- Childcare providers and mathematical development
- Cross-cultural comparisons of mathematics learning
- Early childhood home-based services
- Early childhood out-of-home care
- Games and mathematical development
- Geometry in early childhood
- Home childcare curriculum recommendations
- Home childcare environment
- Home environment
- Home numeracy
- Home numeracy environment
- Language and mathematics in early childhood
- Mathematical skill development
- Mathematical skill development in early childhood
- Mathematics education in early childhood
- Mathematics skills
- Parenting and mathematics education
- Spatial skills in early childhood
- Young children and mathematics
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USA
Belinda Blevins-Knabe
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Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development, Utah State University, Logan, USA
Ann M. Berghout Austin
About the editors
Ann M. Berghout Austin, Ph.D., is Professor of Family, Consumer, and Human Development and Director of the Center for Women and Gender at Utah State University. She received her Ph.D. in Child Development from Iowa State University in 1981. Her research interests include children’s development of early mathematics concepts in out-of-home care, child care quality, and child development and mothering in developing countries. She is also interested in the development of leadership skills in girls and women.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Childhood Mathematics Skill Development in the Home Environment
Editors: Belinda Blevins-Knabe, Ann M. Berghout Austin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43974-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43972-3Published: 26 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82952-4Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43974-7Published: 17 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 200
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Social Work, Educational Psychology