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Learning and development: Data handling - Mathematics in the early years - Sort it out
Nursery World,
23 January 2008
Sorting items by different properties and comparing them is a skill that you can observe the children learning to use with increasing sophistication, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner demonstrate.
Sorting, comparing and ordering are ways in which human beings organise information. Young children need to build up lots of experience of organising objects so they can develop abstract ideas of ways of categorising the attributes and functions of things in the everyday world. This helps them see connections and relationships between ideas. As children experience different materials, experiment with their surroundings, sort out what they want to play with,...
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