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eBook details
- Title: Building Literacy Opportunities Into Children's Block Play: What Every Teacher Should Know (Teaching Through Blocks (Toys))
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 334 KB
Description
Learning centers are a highly regarded and widely accepted practice in early childhood classrooms. Centers offer a variety of experiences during a single time segment that encourage children to explore materials, interact with peers, and accomplish new tasks. When materials and equipment are organized in ways that are accessible and meaningful, children immerse themselves into purposeful play activities that promote learning across developmental domains. The block center, a popular mainstay among learning centers, is typically associated with learning basic mathematical skills and concepts. As children build, they learn about quantity, shapes, and sizes, as well as parts of a whole (or fractions). School-age children utilize sets of smaller blocks, designated as "math manipulatives," as they are introduced to higher level mathematics learning. Because blocks are unique in their ability to provide a concrete representation of number concepts, teachers are quick to recognize the valuable role that blocks play in children's understanding of mathematics.