Discovering patterns in preschool education
AUTHORS
Alda Carvalho | acarvalho@adm.isel.pt| ISEL & CEMAPRE
Carlos Pereira dos Santos | cmfsantos@fc.ul.pt | University of Lisbon
Ricardo Cunha Teixeira | ricardo.ec.teixeira@uac.pt | NICA-UAc & FCT-UAc
SUMMARY
This article presents a well-founded set of key ideas about the exploration of standards in Preschool Education. This is a support document for professionals working “in the field” (educators, assistants, among others) and a source of reference for parents, guardians and anyone interested in strategies to encourage preschool children to explore Mathematics. The text has two essential sections: a first section presents a categorization of appropriate patterns to explore in Preschool Education (repetitive patterns, progressive patterns and patterns with symmetry); a second section presents some typical explorations, hierarchizing degrees of difficulty and analyzing frequent reactions of children in this age group.
KEYWORDS
Repetition patterns, progressive or growth patterns, patterns with symmetries, logical-mathematical thinking, child cognition, Preschool Education
RELEVANT DATES
Published: 2021/11/04
Received: 2021/05/11