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Playing with Mathematics: Implications from the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum

Playing with Mathematics: Implications from the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum

Bob Perry & Sue Dockett

Published in Mathematics: Traditions and [New] Practices

After an introduction to the current conceptions of play in early childhood settings, this paper considers what The Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum say about play and mathematics learning in the home and preschool, and the early years of school. It analyses similarities and differences in the two documents with regard to their philosophies about play as pedagogy for the learning of mathematics.

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