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Peucker, Sabine; Weißhaupt, Steffi – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2013
The development of numerical concepts is described from infancy to preschool age. Infants a few days old exhibit an early sensitivity for numerosities. In the course of development, nonverbal mental models allow for the exact representation of small quantities as well as changes in these quantities. Subitising, as the accurate recognition of small…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numeracy, Child Development, Infants
Scherer, Petra – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2013
This article presents a number of carefully selected activities for the mathematics classroom in the early grades. The motivation for their selection is the development of concepts rather than the learning of the procedural skills of arithmetic. As the teacher is faced with a great heterogeneity of children starting school, the concrete learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities, Arithmetic, Low Achievement
Wright, Robert J. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2013
This article describes a comprehensive and novel approach to assessment in early numeracy. Topics include the significance of early numeracy, developing a nomenclature for early numeracy, and describing the context for the development of this approach to assessment. The largely unrealised importance of numerals and numeral sequences in early…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Classification