Early Math Concepts: Matching, Classification, comparing, and Ordering.

Young Child-curious being

 One to one correspondence Develop the concept of moreless- the same Assessing matching tasks - Are the items identical? - Are there many items to match, or just a few? - Is there the same number in each set? - Are the sets joined or not joined?

Matching

Matching: Informal learning Around home and School

Example - socks and shoes - each button hole gets a button Assessment of Matching Abilities - Integral part of the planning, teaching and review process. Observation, interview

Early ClassificationCreating Sets

Groups or categories the sameness A set is any well defined group of objects or ideas Venn Diagram- describe the union and the intersection

Children and set: informal learning around home and school

Animals live on the land/in the water Doll , blocks Create set-Children sort objects first by color and then by other dimensions

Complex Classification
Involves thinking about two or more variables simultaneously (sekaligus)

Comparing
Classification- sameness Comparing differences Comparing concepts are opposites Example: hot-cold, heavy-light, rough-smooth

Ordering or seriation
Putting more than two objects, or sets with more than two members, into a sequence Example by size (little to big), length (Short to long), height (short to tall), width ( thin to thick). Color ( light - dark), texture (rough-smooth)