Early Childhood Education - Numeracy Development

strategies for early childhood educators and parents to support children's math learning

What you'll learn
implement strategies to help children in early childhood years develop their early numeracy concepts and skills.
Requirements
no
Description
Helping children develop their early childhood numeracy skills can have a profound impact on their future math skills during school years. That is because these skills are part of the foundation of math learning including logical reasoning, problem solving, and observing patterns. This course aims to offer you strategies to support your child’s early childhood numeracy development as your child’s caregiver and first teacher.There are many benefits to using these strategies. The first and foremost benefit is that you can make learning not feel like learning at all for both you and your child. These strategies will help you integrate numeracy learning seamlessly into your everyday interactions, activities, and routines, and make numeracy learning more fun and enjoyable for both you and your child.By completing this course, your child could benefit from building a strong foundation in numeracy skills and cultivating their confidence to succeed in math during their future school years.Contents and OverviewThis course contains 15 lectures and 60 minutes of content. It is designed for anyone who is a caregiver or educator of children in their early childhood years, which is from birth to the age of 8.In this course, you will first learn about the stages of early numeracy development, which will provide you with an overview of a child’s developmental abilities and milestones. This will give you the foundation to understand the stages your child is going through and to choose the appropriate strategies that could support and enhance your child’s numeracy skill development.Next, you will learn concrete strategies to infuse numeracy learning into your everyday life. These strategies will offer you ways to introduce, reinforce, and advance your child’s numeracy skills depending on the stage of development they are at. You will learn about various techniques and principles of learning to create learning contexts and play-based activities for your child.And, finally, you will learn ways to support your child’s numeracy development during their early school years. This course will show you strategies that will support your child’s learning of other numeracy-related skill sets in school, such as patterning, geometry, and measurements.Learning Outcomes1) Create learning contexts that allow your child to use their innate numeracy skills2) Facilitate your child’s learning of numbers and quantities through play and other daily activities3) Use principles of Universal Design for Learning to identify your child’s interests, curiosities, and inquiries in numeracy skills development4) Use effective communication techniques to facilitate numeracy learning

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Stages of Early Numeracy Development

Lecture 2 Stages of Early Numeracy Development

Lecture 3 Subitizing and Counting

Section 3: Make Numeracy Part of Everyday Life

Lecture 4 Make Numeracy Part of Everyday Life

Lecture 5 Learning through Numeracy-related Play

Section 4: Communication Techniques

Lecture 6 Communication Technique 1 - Questioning

Lecture 7 Communication Technique 2 - Make Thinking Visible

Lecture 8 Communication Technique 3 - Positive Reinforcement

Section 5: Teaching and Learning Numeracy for Children

Lecture 9 Principles of Universal Design for Learning

Lecture 10 Include Opportunities to be Creative

Lecture 11 Numeracy and Other Related Skills

Section 6: Do-It-Yourself Math Toys and Activities

Lecture 12 DIY Math Toys - Adding to 10

Lecture 13 DIY Math Toys - Geometry

Lecture 14 DIY Math Toys - Fundamental Operations

Lecture 15 DIY Math Toys - Patterning and Measurement

parents with children in early childhood years (from birth to age 8),Early Childhood Educator and other professionals who work with children in early childhood years