Discuss the role of manipulative materials and real-world settings in developing students' understanding of the operations
What will be an ideal response?
Complete answers will include the following: Young children develop an understanding of operations by solving a variety of word problems, initially set familiar real-world experiences. After introducing a real-world problem, encourage children to represent or translate it into some model. Initially, this model should be a concrete representation of the setting, for example, using actual objects mentioned in the problem, such as cookies, or blocks or counters to represent the objects in the problem. Later the teacher can introduce pictorial representations. Mental images and children's natural language skills also play key roles in developing conceptual understanding. Children must have an extensive number of experiences with meaningful problem solving before they are introduced to symbolic expressions, and symbolic expressions are best introduced as a way to record concrete representations. (see Figure 7-1)
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