Base Knowledge
N/A
Teaching Methodologies
The lectures will be of theoretical and practical nature, they will look for provoking and promoting in the pupils the
participation and reflection about the mathematical concepts and processes. It can resort, if it is suitable, to the use of
teaching and learnig contexts related to the early math.
Learning Results
– To know: the thinking processes of the child, the content of early mathematics, the different components of early mathematics;
– To develop reasoning processes used in mathematics such as: unitizing, to compose and to decompose, to look for
patterns and to organize information;
– To know powerful mathematics ideas for the early childwood such as: mathematization, connections, argumentation,
number sense, mental arithmetic, analyse of data.
Program
– Number and number sense; oral counting, object counting, comparing, ordering and estimating, estimation and
numeral recognition;
– Arithmetic operations;
– Geometry: visual-spatial thinking, shape, composition and decomposition of geometric shapes;
– Measurement: length, wieght, area, volume, angle;
– Patterns;
– Data Analysis;
– Mathematical process: reasoning and problem-solving; classification and seriation.
Grading Methods
- - exam - 100.0%
- - class activities participation - 15.0%
- - group work (2 elements) - 10.0%
- - test - 75.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
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