Building Blocks--Foundations for Mathematical Thinking, Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2: Research-based Materials Development

纽约州立大学布法罗分校计划开发示范性的prek - 2年级课程材料，这将使幼儿能够建立坚实的内容知识并提高他们的高阶思维技能。方法是“在儿童的活动中发现数学”和“从儿童的活动中发展数学”。活动将根据孩子的经验和兴趣进行设计，重点是支持数学成长的发展。这些材料将强调基本数学构建块的发展-组织成两个领域：(a)空间和几何能力和概念和(b)数字和定量概念。将有三个数学副主题，模式和函数，数据和离散数学。这些材料将逐步分层，以便用户能够“深入挖掘”它们，以达到越来越丰富但要求越来越高的教学和数学水平。“构建模块”将根据基于研究的设计模型为各种各样的情况开发。这些材料将支持和补充新的NCTM PreK-2课程和评价标准。这个项目有可能开发出教学上有效的材料，作为内容和教学改革的工具，在多个层次进行形成性和总结性评价，并对各种环境下的幼儿的学习产生积极影响。

9730804 Clements The State University of New York at Buffalo plans to develop exemplary PreK-grade 2 curriculum materials, which will enable young children to build solid content knowledge and to enhance their higher-order thinking skills. The approach is that of "finding the mathematics in," and "developing mathematics from, children's activities." Activities will be designed based on children's experiences and interests, with an emphasis on supporting the development of mathematical growth. The materials will emphasize the development of basic mathematical building blocks - organized into two areas: (a) spatial and geometric competencies and concepts and (b) numeric and quantitative concepts. There will be three mathematics sub-themes, patterns and functions, data, and discrete mathematics. The materials will be progressively layered so that users will be able to "dig deeper" into them in order to reach increasingly rich, but demanding, pedagogical and mathematical levels. The "Building Blocks" will be developed for a wide variety of situations according to a research-based design model. These materials will support and complement the new NCTM PreK-2 Curriculum and Evaluation Standards. This project has the potential to develop pedagogically efficacious materials that will serve as tools of content and pedagogical reform, to conduct formative and summative evaluations at multiple levels, and to have a positive effect on learning of young children from a variety of settings.