What is the process of comparing items/objects and placing them in logical sequence (ex: small, medium, large)
Ordering/Seriation
What is patterning? What is an example of patterning that can be seen in a preschool classroom?
Patterns are things that repeat in a logical way. You can find patterning at the manipulative table in a preschool classroom. A child participating in peg boards can create a pattern with colored pegs. Ex: Red, blue, red, blue (ABAB pattern) or green, green, yellow, green, green, yellow (AABAAB pattern).
Name the three essential components of DAP?
What is...
1. What is known about child development and learning.
2.What is known about each child as an individual, to help teachers be able to adapt for and be responsive to individual variation.
3. What is known about the social and cultural contexts in which children live.
Name one of the 10 ways play is the most appropriate curriculum for young children according to your text?
Play: 1. provides for all areas of development 2. emphasizes learning as an active/interactive process 3. presents highly motivated opportunities for learning 4. allows for differences 5. allows for practice and repetition of newly acquired skills, competencies, and ideas 6. promotes self-regulation 7. contributes to brain development 8. promotes acquisition of foundational skills 9. lays the cornerstone for social/moral develoment 10. supports emotional development
What is the skill of transductive reasoning?
What is Piaget's term for a child's tendency to believe that because something happened once, it will always happen. They assume cause and effect based on events closely linked to time (a superficial connection).
Define one-to-one correspondence
What is...an early learning math skill that involves the act of counting each object in a set once, and only once with one touch per object.
True or False? Cooperatively only takes place amongst large groups of children.
What is false.
It is snack time at fieldwork. You are sitting with a small group of children at the table, and you are tasked with the responsibility of taking advantage of a teachable moment related to mathematical concepts. There are graham crackers and apples for snack today. A child sitting next to you breaks the graham cracker in half and says, "Look, my cracker is now in 2 parts!) The child has just demonstrated understanding of what type of math skill?
What is... part vs. whole, beginning fractions!