Stimulating Children's Numerical Thinking By Organizing Activities In Daily Life Situations

Early in the seventies and eighties in last century, Kamii and DeVrice began to adopt constructivism into explaining how young children acquire the concept of number. They proposed a set of idea and action program on stimulate children's numerical thinking by organizing activities in daily life situations.Kamii and DeVrice believe that the children's real daily life situations is the background of their reinventing mathematics., All questions or problems, concerning number that children may encounter in their daily life situations, would be a natural stimulation for children's numeral thinking. They also can spur children to construct mathematic knowledge in the interaction between surroundings and themselves. Furthermore, Kamii and DeVrice introduced many detailed textual cases in their work on how to carry out activities to stimulate children's numeral thinking in their real daily life, as references for the educators.The video cases can recur how children acquire the concept of number in those activities and present the dynamic learning process to the teacher. Then teachers can innovate the teaching methods to stimulate children's numerical thinking by reviewing and recollecting. In this dissertation, some typical mathematics teaching cases, about how situations in daily life can be used to stimulate children's numerical thinking in kindergarten,...