Abstract

ZOTES COLINAS,, Elena  and  ARNAL-PALACIAN, Mónica. Mathematics in Early Childhood Education: a look at learning of magnitudes from sustainable development. Educ. mat. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.1, pp.306-334.  Epub June 06, 2022. ISSN 2448-8089.  https://doi.org/10.24844/em3401.11.

This research presents an investigation about the learning of mathematics in Early Childhood Education, in particular the magnitudes, in an educational center that develops the European Outdoor Model, we set as our objective of this article is to describe and analyse the performance and mathematics skills developed by the students who follow this model as well as the perception of their teachers have. In order to achieve it, we used an ethnographic methodology that allowed us to describe, with emphasis, the way of life of the participants. Firstly, we interviewed the teachers in a public center in Waldkindergarten (a school in the forest) in Germany. Later, we lived there for two months, together with 20 children and their 4 teachers. to be able to observe each of the activities carried out there. Among the results we find an anticipation in the age of the handling of the magnitudes length and area, while there are greater obstacles for the development of the magnitudes volume and mass.

Keywords : European Outdoor Model; Early Childhood Education; Mathematics education; Magnitudes; SDG.