Problem Solving, Blocks, and Young Children

Teaching Mathematics in the Early Childhood Classroom

1987

A joint publication of the Early Childhood Education Council and
the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

Edited by John B. Percevault and Gordon Orlick

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Problem Solving, Blocks, and Young Children

Marie Innes

By being an observant audience of children’s actions, talk, and writing, we get brief glimpses of children’s thoughts about many things The following writing shows one s1x-year-old’s impressions of math.