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Rethinking Early Mathematics: What Is Research-Based curriculum for young children ? Douglas H. Clements and Julie Sarama How many times have you heard, "Our mathematics curriculum is based on re-search"? Have aU these curricula (including Early childhood education programs, educational software, teaching strategies, etc.) been similar? Have they aU been ef-fective? Many who publish a curriculum , or write or speak about a teaching ap-proach, claim their approach is based on research , even though they vary widely (Battista and Clements 2000; Clements 2007; Senk and Thompson 2003). Such claims are often vacuous, including general statements about what "the research says." Unfortunately, such overuse of the phrase " Research-Based " undermines at-tempts to create a shared research foundation for the development of, and informed choices about, classroom curricula (National research Council 2002, 2004).
Rethinking Early Mathematics: What Is Research-Based Curriculum for Young Children? Douglas H. Clements and Julie Sarama How many times have you heard, …
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