MATHEMATICS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

Wee Teng is eating orange segments. “I got three.” (Holds up three fingers.)

Kausalya and Kirthana both age 4 are having a tea party. Kirthana says, “The tea is hot.”

(c) Ho Yan is 4 years old. Her teacher decides that she needs some practice counting. She says, “Ho Yan, I have some blocks here for you to count. How many are in this pile?”

Ethan hands Dad 2 ringgit, saying, “here’s your two dollars!”

Mohana age 6 is cutting her clay into many small pieces. Then she squashes it together into one big piece.

“I’m 6 years old,” says 3-year-old Ah Jun while holding up three fingers. Dad says, “lets count those fingers. 1, 2, 3, fingers. How old are you?”

Aiinaa age 4 is setting the table. She gets frustrated because she does not seem to have enough cups. “Let’s check,” says her teacher. “There is one place mat for each chair. Let’s see if there is one cup on each mat.” They move around the table checking. They come to a mat with two cups. “Two cups,” says Aiinaa. “Hurrah!” says teacher.

Vino is painting. She makes a dab of yellow and then daps some blue on top. “hey! I’ve got green now.”

Matching animals to their homes.

Drawing an imaginary line through the middle of the square sandwich.

Duplicating yarn triangles and circles.

Looking down on things from a bird’s eye view.

UNDERSTANDING OF AN IDEA OR THOUGHT

AN ACTIVITY THAT CAN BE LEARNED AND THAT CAN IMPROVE WITH PRACTICE

The child finds a relationship between two things or groups of things on the basis of some specific characteristics.