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Kuliah 1 A - Teaching Math For Preschool

This document discusses effective strategies for teaching math concepts to kindergarten and preschool children. It recommends using concrete materials to make abstract ideas understandable, giving children plenty of time to explore math materials before guided activities, and building math vocabulary through everyday experiences and games. Teachers should start with short structured activities in small groups and change materials when interest wanes to keep children engaged.

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Kuliah 1 A - Teaching Math For Preschool

This document discusses effective strategies for teaching math concepts to kindergarten and preschool children. It recommends using concrete materials to make abstract ideas understandable, giving children plenty of time to explore math materials before guided activities, and building math vocabulary through everyday experiences and games. Teachers should start with short structured activities in small groups and change materials when interest wanes to keep children engaged.

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Teaching Kindergarten

and Preschool Math

Teaching kindergarten and preschool


math concepts requires much more than
handing children math workbooks or
worksheets.
Children need to have math
experiences that incorporate their senses,
that require them to experiment and
make observations, and that allow them
time to investigate a topic further.
Children learn at their own rate and
frequently return to former tasks and try
solving them in new ways.

Kindergarten and
preschool math:
How do young children
learn math?

1. Concrete materials
Children need:
concrete object (such as real stuff,
manipulatives materials, blocks,
counters, popsicle sticks) in order to
make sense of new math concepts or
abstract ideas.
Teaching with manipulatives for easy
steps on how to do this. Only after
children have ample opportunities to
learn to a new concepts with real things
are they ready to connect their learning to

2.Time
Children need plenty of time to
play with math materials before
they use them for teacher guided
math activities.

3. A Meaningful Vocabulary
Children need to link math to their
everyday experiences. Math games
and activities are good
opportunities to build math
vocabulary. They need vocabulary
to express their mathematical
experiences. For more information
read,

TEACHER TIP
When teaching kindergarten and preschool
math start with shorter periods of structured
activities and increase when the group is ready.
Change groups frequently as children learn
from and gather ideas and vocabulary from
each other. When
children lose interest, change
the materials and tasks
slightly.
Small groups of ten children work well for
kindergarten math structured activities. The
other children can be doing unstructured free
exploration with other math equipment at this
time.
You will need to train kindergarten and
preschool children to care for classroom
materials during the first month of school and
with each new set of objects you add to the

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