Arithmetic for First Graders Lacking Number Concepts
2008; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Volume: 14; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5951/tcm.14.7.0389
ISSN2327-0780
AutoresConstance Kamii, Judith Rummelsburg,
Tópico(s)Mathematics Education and Pedagogy
ResumoAmong the first graders who came to our Title-I school one year, we found twenty-six children who had no understanding of number concepts. In the assessment at the beginning of the school year, these children could not conserve number with eight counters. They could count out four chips, but when we hid some of the chips and asked, “How many am I hiding?” the children gave random answers, such as, “Ten.” Our challenge was that we were required by law to teach an hour of arithmetic to these children every day despite the fact that they had not yet developed an understanding of number concepts.
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