Monday, September 27, 2010

Whole number and common practices in local pre-school

Having read through the few chapters that talk about number sense, I felt that the local pre-schools need to relook their math curriculum as there are a few important topics which the children should be exposed.

The common practice in local pre-school emphasize in counting 1-5 for the nursery one; 1-20 for the nursery two; 1-100 for the kindergarten 1s and 2s. Patterning and simple geometry are something that were in practice as well. For the kindergarten 2s, topics such as time and money are included into the curriculum to prepare them for primary school education. Personally I felt that the time allocated for the topic of time and money is too short.

Some of the practice that are ommited from the pre-school math curriculum are doubles as well as the aid of calculators and also anchoring of numbers. In the school which I works in, fraction and division was not in sight at all.

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