Links

Chapter 5: Mathematics for the Younger Learner

Australian Center for Educational Studies
http://www.aces.mq.edu.au/aces_re_crimse_groups_1.aspx
This link provides access to a number of research papers on the development of early number concepts.

Early Math Strategy (Ontario)
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/math/teaching.html
This link allows you to download the 2003 document described as the early math strategy in Ontario. It looks at the broad issues of teaching math at the primary levels.

Early Numeracy Research Project
www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/eys/num/ENRP/About/framewrk.htm
This link takes you to information about a large–scale research project on early numeracy sponsored by the government in Australia.

Illuminations (NCTM)
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=74
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=75
This link takes you to applets that allow students to work with five-frames or ten-frames right on screen.

Illuminations (NCTM) Number and Operations Weblinks
http://illuminations.nctm.org/WebResourceList.aspx?Ref=2&Std=0&Grd=0
This links to a site that provides further links to a wide variety of number and operations sites, including those appropriate for early counting, for example Let’s Count.

Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/library
This links to the part of the MathForum site that allows you to access information about teaching in PreK, K, and Grades 1 and 2.

National Association for the Education of Young Children
www.naeyc.org/about/positions/psmath.asp
This link takes you to a document that describes the position of the National association for the education of young children on early mathematics learning.

National Center for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics
www.ncetm.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=22&module=enc&mode=100&
enclbl=Numerals+and+Counting+in+the+Early+Years
This link takes you to a British educational website that provides useful information about what we know about how students learn to count.