Schematising activities in early childhood education |
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| Authors: | Mariëlle Poland Bert van Oers Jan Terwel |
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| Institution: | 1. VU University Amsterdam , The Netherlands m.poland@psy.vu.nl;3. VU University Amsterdam , The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of introducing schematising to children in early childhood and to determine whether schematising can be taught to children. This was done using a longitudinal, quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design (N = 133). In this study, the use of schematising was taught to an experimental group of children to determine if it is possible to realise significantly improved results in schematising tasks for an experimental group in comparison to a control group of children who were not taught schematising. Pupils in the experimental group demonstrated significantly better results on schematising, which cannot be explained by maturation. In our future research, we will investigate the mathematical performances of these experimental and control groups in the next grade of the primary school curriculum. |
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| Keywords: | schematising mathematics early childhood |
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