Young Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic--3rd Grade

Download or read book Young Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic--3rd Grade written by Constance Kamii and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in previous volumes, Kamii uses Piaget's groundbreaking work in constructivism as well as her own years of research in classrooms to closely observe what third grade children actually do when solving problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Her work translates Piaget's theory into a concrete programme that encourages children to use maths in real ways that stimulate them to reinvent arithmetic. She also challenges quick-fix theories of educational reform, replacing these with one that revolutionises our understanding of how human beings acquire knowledge, and thus drastically changing what we think schools should try to do. Educators have long been trying to transmit knowledge to children from the outside. What reform needs is a focus inside the child to maximise the process of construction from within.