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Opinion: Nature's way to learn
By Kim Simpson, proprietor of The Studio Montessori, London,
Nursery World,
17 July 2008
Sir Peter Williams' report on maths teaching has much of value, and suggestions for a sensitive approach to the early years goes some way to calming the alarm bells.
However, we cannot go on applying the 'one size fits all' rhetoric to the term 'early years', when the learning and development at nursery level is so markedly different from that of a child towards the end of the reception year, perhaps nearly six years old. Sir Peter advises the DCSF to ensure that by 2010 all pre-school children are taught about time and capacity. Was he ever taught such concepts...
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