Mathematics and Transition to School

This edited book brings together for the first time an international collection of work focused on  two important aspects of any young child's life - learning mathematics and starting primary or elementary school. The chapters take a variety of perspectives, and integrate these two components in sometimes explicit and sometimes more subtle ways.

1 Mathematics and Transition to School: Theoretical  Frameworks and Practical Implications.- Part I The Mathematics Young Children Bring to the First Year of School.- 2 Swimming Upstream in a Torrent of Assessment.- 3 Assessing Young Children's Mathematical Understanding: Opportunities and Expectations at the Transition to School.- 4 Children's Mathematical Knowledge Prior to Starting School and Implications for Transition.- 5 Transition to School: Prior to School Mathematical Skills and Knowledge of Low-Achieving Children at the End of Grade 1.- 6 Let's Count: Early Childhood Educators and Families Working in Partnership to Support Young Children's Transitions in Mathematics Education.- 7 The Role of the Home Environment in Children's Early Numeracy Development: A Canadian Perspective.- 8 Mathematics Teachers Responding to Children's Resources to Create Learning for All.- Part II Continuity of Mathematics Curriculum and/or Pedagogy as Children Begin School.- 9 The Relationship Between Policy and Practice in the Early Mathematics Curriculum for Reception-Class Children in England.- 10 Scaling Up Early Mathematics Interventions: Transitioning with Trajectories and Technologies.- 11 Partnerships that Support Children's Mathematics During the Transition to School: Perceptions, Barriers and Opportunities.- 12 The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom During the First School Years in Finland and Sweden.- 13 A New Zealand Perspective: Mathematical Progressions from Early Childhood to School through a Child Centred Curriculum?.- 14 The Impact of a Patterns and Early Algebra Program on Children's Learning in Transition to School in Australian Indigenous Communities.- 15 Preschool Mathematics Learning and School Transition in Hong Kong.- Part III    Informal and Formal Mathematics and the Transition to School.- 16 Early Mathematics in Play Situations: Continuity of Learning.- 17 Mathematical Conversations that Challenge Children's Thinking.- 18Transition to School: Supporting Children's Engagement in Mathematical Thinking Processes.- 19 Listening to Children's Mathematics in School.