mathematics in childhood

Abstract
This paper examines the early role of teacher approach, child’s motivation, and timing sets the mathematic ability in early childhood. Approximately 6% of children in the United States demonstrated poor performance on mathematics. Finding show that, teacher’s attitude and communication stimulates the learning environment of mathematics for young children. Children need to be ready emotionally to obtain an effective learning experience. Children who are confident and highly motivated tend to perform well even if the task was difficult. Giving children time to practice and master the skills are needed to move onto the next stage.

Approximately 6% of children in the United States demonstrated poor performance on mathematics (Siegler and Alibali, 2005). Mathematic is challenging to most young children. Some of the concerns on poor mathematic achievements are poorly prepare teachers, poor foundation and lack of motivations for the child to participate in mathematics (Chard et al., 2008). This paper examines the early role of teacher approach, child’s motivation, and timing sets the mathematic ability in early childhood. The early childhood years are critical period for cognitive development in academic skills such as attention, focus, and retrieval skills (Graziano et al., 2006). Teaching approach and the introduction manners of mathematics to young children affects their mathematic abilities. The child’s motivation in learning mathematics...

mathematics in childhood

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