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Young Children‘S Mathematics References During Free Play In Family Child Care Settings, Shawnee M. Hendershot
Young Children‘S Mathematics References During Free Play In Family Child Care Settings, Shawnee M. Hendershot
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was undertaken to determine how children use math in their everyday activities, which includes caregiving environments outside of their home. Audio recordings were taken of children while they played. The researcher typed transcripts of the audio recordings in order to search for references to math. The different types of math that the children used were: (a) classification, (b) magnitude, (c) enumeration, (d) patterns and shapes, (e) spatial reasons, and (f) part/whole. An example of classification would be a child sorting blocks into groups based on shape. Magnitude is used when a child uses phrases to compare two or …