Academic Catalog

ECE213 TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

Course Code:	4110213
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(2-2)
ECTS Credit:	5.0
Department:	Early Childhood Education
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:	Assoc.Prof.Dr. ELÝF KARSLI ÇALAMAK
Offered Semester:	Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Logico-mathematical and spatio-temporal learning by the child`s own experience with objects (learning by discovery), creating and inventing relationships between objects and symbols and resulting integration and reorganization of ideas by the child. Spatial relations, time concepts, number concepts, one-to-one correspondence, comparing sizes, comparing amounts, comparing and evaluating different points of view, classification, seriation, conservation.