Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research: Learning Trajectories for Young Children

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives.

PrefacePart One: Introduction1. Early Childhood Mathematics LearningPart Two: Number and Quantitative Thinking2. Quantity, Number, and Subitizing3. Verbal and Object CountinngChapter 4: Comparing, Ordering, and Estimating5. Arithmetic: Early Addition and Subtraction and Counting Strategies6. Arithmetic: Composition of Number, Place Value, and Multidigit Addition and SubtractionPart Three: Geometry and Spatial Thinking7. Spatial Thinking8. Shape9. Composition and Decomposition of ShapesPart Four: Geometric Measurement10. Geometric Measurement-Length11. Geometric Measurement, Part 2: Area, Volume, and AnglePart Five: Other Content Domains and Processes12. Other Content Domains13. Mathematical Processes14. Professional Development and Scaling Up