CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
HOW ARE CONCEPTS ACQUIRED
CONCEPT APPLICATION
100
The building blocks of knowledge.
What is a concept?
100
NATURALISTIC, INFORMAL, STRUCTURED.
What is a learning experience?
100
COMPARING MORE THAN TWO THINGS.
What is ordering or seriation?
200
One-to-one correspondence, counting, classifying, and measuring.
What are fundamental math concepts?
200
Experiences occur when an opportunity presents itself by chance.
What is a teachable moment?
200
Ordering that involves repeated sequencing.
What is patterning?
300
During this period children begin develop concepts that are more adult like.
What is the preoperational phase?
300
preplanned lessons or activities.
What is a structured learning experience?
300
One of the most useful math skills.
What is Measurement?
400
This stage is not reached during early childhood.
What is formal operations?
400
This type of question can squelch creativity and the willingness to guess and experiment.
What is a convergent question?
400
Time fixed by clocks and calendars.
What is cultural time?
500
Awareness, exploration, inquiry, and utilization.
What is the learning cycle?
500
Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.
What is a learning style?
500
Using paperclips to measure a sheet of paper.
What is an arbitrary measurement?
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