World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res | Volume 3, Issue 1 | Review Article | Open Access

Awakening Early Learners’ Mathematical Competencies

Amani Yamani

Department of Psychology, Umm-Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia

*Correspondance to: Amani Yamani 

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Abstract

The early childhood stage is an exciting time for young learners. At this age, they are avidly curious about the world around them prompting them to ask a million and one questions to their parents, teachers and other significant adults in their lives. Apart from learning about letters, the concept of numbers also surrounds them and such symbols do not fail to catch their attention. This is especially true if they see their parents work with letters as they read news papers or books and computes with numbers as they prepare the budget, solve math problems, etc. The interest of this action research paper is how young learners learn about basic math concepts deemed to be more complicated as they grow older. It is a fact that many people find math difficult and become alienated to the subject because they cannot understand mathematical language. What strategies are employed for young children to effectively learn basic math concepts? To satisfy these research questions, a review of literature is done to give the researcher a background of what previous scholars have found out about early learning in Math concepts. Then, the researcher tries out various activities with a fouryear old girl to help her learn basic math concepts such as recognition of numbers, knowledge of quantity and one-to-one correspondence.

Citation:

Yamani A. Awakening Early Learners’ Mathematical Competencies. World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res. 2019; 3(1): 1018.

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