Approach to learning in which different subject areas are integrated, intertwining, and permeating each other.
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Integration of Activities of Mathematical Education and Language Development in Preschool Education
Mirjana M. Stakić (University of Kragujevac, Serbia) and Sanja M. Maričić (University of Kragujevac, Serbia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5799-9.ch010
Abstract
This chapter will explain through concrete examples of literature for children how the same literary text through activities of speech exercises (lexical, semantic, and syntactic), enables their speech development, and contributes to the enrichment of the active lexical fund, and on the other hand, it creates a real context for the development of mathematical concepts. The literary text contributes to the visualization of mathematical concepts, which ensures transition from concrete to abstract concepts and ideas, and mathematical concepts become more acceptable as a result of their clarity and intelligibility. The mentioned activities, in addition to their educational function, build and acquire knowledge that is adopted with understanding in a real context familiar to their concept of the world, give rise to the development of children's imagination, inventiveness, creativity, inquiring mind, and autonomy, and make children grow fond of literature and mathematics from the earliest age.