All children require mathematical understanding to access as full a life as possible. This practical book explores the curriculum required to accommodate the various difficulties faced by children with severe and profound learning difficulties. It describes how children's mathematical thinking first develops and how it can be nurtured to ensure real understanding and support essential life skills. Chapters explore key concepts including: • quantity recognition and counting
About the author
PART ONE - ABOUT A SPECIAL CURRICULUM
PART TWO - TOOLS FOR LEARNING
6. Introducing the Tools for Learning
7. Physical Skills at the beginning of Thinking
8. Schema - First Patterns of Thinking
9. Introducing the Senses
10. About Vision
11. Hearing
12. Touch and Movement
13. Attention
14. Perception
PART THREE - PROCESSES OF LEARNING
15. Introducing the Processes of Learning
16. Learning to Play
17. There are Many ways of Playing
PART FOUR - THINKING ABOUT THINKING
18. About the Development of Thinking
19. Thinking with Objects and Fingers
20. Visualisation - using all senses
21. Thinking with Graphic Representations
22. Using Numerals - A medium to abstract thinking.
23. Language and Thinking.
PART FIVE - DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL IDEAS.
24. Introducing Aspects of Mathematical Thinking.
25. Some sensory beginnings
26. Comprehending Space, Shape and Measures.
27. Learning About Size and Comparisons.
28. About Number Sense
29. An Exact Number Sense
30. An Approximate Number Sense.
31. Understanding Comparative Value - Including Exchange and Money.
32. Number is Like Space.
33. Subitising - Connecting Perception with Number
34. Counting
35. Calculation and Big Ideas.