ECCE 2116 Quizs

A critical inability of preoperational children is the inability to conserve

true

Kindergarten is the most appropriate grade for children to group by more than one attribute.

false

Early childhood encompasses three of the four Piagetian stages. Which one of the stages is not reached during early childhood?

formal operations

What is the most important reason for emphasizing process skills, concrete experiences, and investigations in primary grades?

So that children see a relationship between concepts and their world

Math materials should not have which of the following characteristics?

Specifically fit only one purpose

Knowledge of algorithms should be acquired through which of the following strategies?

Start with the children's own strategies and, through questioning, guide them toward the conventional methods.

Equity must be considered relative to children's

everyday experiences, cultural background, home language, socioeconomic status

A child places one toy car into each box garage. This is an example of an informal activity.​

false

A primary science investigation usually begins with a prediction.​

false

By the time they are age 2½, children can be involved in adult-guided activities.

false

Children cannot begin to understand that plants and animals have life cycles.

false

Children in the preoperational period are too young to move on to working with quantities above 10

false

Concept activities preplanned by an adult are called adult guided.

false

Concepts can be characterized as thoughts that are incomplete until adulthood.

false

Concrete objects cannot serve as a bridge between informal and formal mathematics.

false

Convergent questions and directions allow a child to think and act for themselves

false

Guides to expectations as to what children should know and be able to do at different ages and stages are referred to as curriculum guides

false

In the cycle of learning, each time a new situation is encountered infants and toddlers begin with awareness and move through the first THREE levels of the cycle. (Be sure to check HOW MANY levels infants and toddlers go through)

false

Integration of curriculum areas can be pictured in a weblike structure in which mathematics is always at the center and science and other subjects are attached by radials.

false

Most of young children's concepts of measurement come from adult-guided activities.​

false

Preoperational children can work with pencil and paper

false

Technology cannot enhance the understanding of beginning math and science concepts.

false

The language used by the child and the way he or she uses it is all the teacher needs to assess the conceptual development of the child

false

The preoperational period extends from ages two to five.

false

The term inquiry refers to a child's natural curiosity.

false

Understanding place value is an easy task for young children.

false

Upper-primary-age students are too young to develop the understanding that all animals depend on plants.

false

Word or story problems are an essential ingredient in the instruction of multiplication, but not in the instruction of addition or subtraction.

false

Young children are not interested in the concepts of part and whole.

false

Young children are ready for the abstract level of formal thinking

false

​A base map is a detailed map of an area known by the child

false

​Interviews can be used to assess addition and subtraction, but not multiplication and division.

false

​Number sense is a skill

false

​Seriating is the term that refers to looking at a group of items and instantly knowing how many items are in the group

false

​To support the development of rational counting skills, work in groups that have zero to five items before using larger groups.

false

Children just learning number symbol skills might be observed to

match numerals that are alike

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences outlines several modalities, areas that:

may be one or more areas or modalities through which an individual may learn most readily

An experience that is selected and initiated by the child is labeled:

naturalistic

Versatility is important when selecting math materials.

true

When an adult takes advantage of a teaching opportunity by intervening in the child's activity this is referred to as informal instruction

true

​Both the NCTM and Common Core State Standards include the expectation that preschoolers and kindergartners will

understand that time is a measureable attribute

In addition to awareness, exploration, and inquiry, which of the following processes are encompassed in the learning cycle for young children?

utilization

​Math and science can be learned through reading and writing according to the philosophy called

whole language

Children with special needs can benefit from doing measurement activities​

working in pairs.

Which of the following are basic materials for matching groups to symbols?

​Containers with numerals written on them and chips to count matching sets

Sameness of size and shape is called

​congruency

When children are developing the concept of measurement they, go through several stages. The first stage is​

​pretending to measure by imitating older peers and adults.

​At the heart of home learning are naturalistic and informal experiences, which are characterized by all of the following attributes except

​provision for drill-and-practice activities.

​The term that refers to looking at a group of items and instantly knowing how many items are in the group is called

​subitizing.

Parents need to be encouraged to understand that the parents of competitive children

​take advantage of opportunities for informal learning experiences.

Which one of the following activities does not teach the child something about temperature?

Weighing various quantities of rocks

Primary-grade students will be moving into which of the following stages?​

Using arbitrary units

Objects put together in a group based on common criterion such as color or shape are called​

a logical group

The National Science Education Standards

all of these answers

What is the most appropriate reason for having learning centers in the science classroom?

Children's interest stems from the materials and experiences available to them.

What is the primary advantage of purchasing a publisher's kit?

Kits are self-contained and ready to use

The primary goal of which of the following types of centers is to motivate children to want to learn more about the subject at the center?

Science interest center

According to the text, why should teachers of young children share science activities with parents?

Science is related to all aspects of a child's life

Which of the following experiences must children have to successfully use symbols on maps?

Studying and exploring real maps

Which of the following is the crux of the interrelationship between mathematics and science?

The basic concepts of mathematics are the basic process skills of science.

Which of the following language-related processes is not specifically listed in the NCTM standards?

associations

Block-building complexity usually develops in a series of stages. The first stage is usually

carrying blocks around

Which one of the following higher levels of classification involves the concept that a smaller group may be included within a larger group?

class inclusion

Lev Vygotsky, a contemporary of Jean Piaget's, differed from Piaget in that:

he put more emphasis on the importance of interaction with adults and peers as critical for concept development

A diagram with mammals at the top, then dogs, monkeys, cats, cows, and elephants is a(n)​

hierarchical classification.

Instances when an adult takes advantage of a teaching opportunity by intervening in the child's activity are referred to as

informal

To use mathematics in everyday life requires that we

make connections.

A must when introducing each whole number operation is to

make liberal use of real-life story problems that the students can act out.

Sarah, Vera, and Joe pour water into and out of various containers. They are at the stage of​

playing and imitation

At which grade level is it most appropriate for children to group by more than one attribute?​

primary

The area between where the child is now operating independently in mental development and where she might go with assistance from an adult or a more mature child is called the zone of:

proximal development

Understanding that when a 1 is taken from the 10s column to the 1s column it's actually 10 that has been moved demonstrates a knowledge of

regrouping

There is increasing pressure for young children to bring home homework. The best policy for teachers is to

send home activities that are concrete and interactive.

The concept of object permanence is developed by the end of the

sensorimotor period

For children to understand and notice what is going on inside their bodies, as well as their outside body parts, they need to develop the concept of

spatial relations

Making graphs proceeds in stages from concrete to abstract. A first-stage activity might be​

stacking blocks to represent a vote.

Guides to expectations as to what children should know and be able to do at different ages and stages are referred to as:

standards

Concepts can be characterized as:

the building blocks of knowledge

A web is constructed in order to connect mathematics to:

the other major content areas