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Early Childhood and Primary Mathematics Education

Welcome to ECPME - an Australian-based site that provides inspiration and information about mathematics for early childhood and primary educators, parents, leaders, and pre-service teachers.

We encourage you to put your mathematical lenses on and join us in our wondrous journey!

About Us and ECPME

We are building our site each week.

Visit us regularly for updates, share our site with colleagues/peers and join our Linkedin community (icon above).

Early childhood and the early years of school are the focus of most of our mathematics content at the moment.

Always use professional judgment about your context and the applicability of our information/inspiration.

Dr Laurinda Lomas

Dr Chelsea Cutting

Belinda Trewartha

What do you wonder about..?

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Multiple modes of learning

What does multimodal mathematical thinking look like?

New article

Can we learn about data and statistics in early childhood?

New article

How can I explore mathematics in songs and rhymes?

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New article

What can we find out from Confessions of a Mathematician?

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New article

What are precursor concepts in mathematics?

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Concepts and processes

What are mathematical concepts?

What are mathematical processes?

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EYLF, concepts, processes

Mathematics and the EYLF2.0

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Resources

What helpful Australian links can I go to?

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Seeing mathematics, potential progressions

Putting on our mathematical lenses - provocation possibilities

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New article...

How can I use children's literature to provoke mathematical thinking?

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Public Lecture - new

Promoting mathematical play and learning opportunities through children's literature

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Principles of learning to count

How complex is counting?

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Sorting, classifying, groups, questioning

Can I promote mathematical thinking while sorting & classifying?

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How do I design good questions?

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Repeating, growing, symmetrical, prediction

How can I start playing with patterns and relationships?

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How do I recognise opportunities to build children's mathematical language?

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Sides, angles, vertices, polygons

What are 2D shapes?

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Line, reflection, axis, rotation

What is symmetry in 2D shapes?

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Turns, degrees, measure

What's your angle?

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Faces, edges, polyhedra, prisms

What are 3D objects?

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3D, base, faces, vertices

How can I explore pyramids?

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volume, capacity, cubic units, container

Is it volume or capacity?

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groups, how many, how much, counting

What about multiplication and division in the early years?

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What is an array and how is it helpful?

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key components of time

How can I think about teaching time?

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Resources

What helpful overseas links can I go to?

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