ED458123 SE065268
Title: Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory. Second Edition. Early Childhood Education Series.
Author(s): Kamii, Constance
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 2000
Notes: With Leslie Baker Housman.
ISBN: 0-8077-3904-9
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, P.O. Box 20, Williston, VT 05495-0020 ($23.95). Tel: 800-575-6566 (Toll Free). 10027.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Information Analysis (070)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Vermont
Journal Announcement: RIEMAR2002
This book describes and develops an innovative program of teaching arithmetic in the early elementary grades. The educational strategies employed are based on Jean Piaget's constructivist scientific ideas of how children develop logico-mathematical thinking. The book is written in collaboration with a classroom teacher and premised on the conviction that children are capable of much more than teachers and parents generally realize. It provides a theoretical foundation and an explanation of educational goals and objectives. The book also contains practical suggestions and developmentally appropriate activities that can be used to stimulate numerical thinking among students of varying abilities and learning styles inside and outside of the classroom. (MM)
Descriptors: *Constructivism (Learning); *Educational Research; *Mathematics Education; *Piagetian Theory; Primary Education