ILTS 206 Sub-Area 3 Practice Question #05

A preschool teacher wants to plan mathematics activities that will be responsive to children's varied experiences, characteristics, and needs. Which of the following strategies would best provide the teacher with information to support this goal?

conferring with parents/guardians about their children's math-related behaviors and activities at homecreating simple paper-and-pencil math tests to administer to the class on a weekly basisposing math-related problems, such as asking students to form themselves into groups of various sizesobserving and conversing with children as they work and play with various manipulatives

Correct Response: D

In order to plan developmentally appropriate mathematics activities for a preschool-age child, a teacher needs to have a good idea of each child’s existing knowledge related to mathematical concepts (e.g., bigger and smaller, more than and less than, round and square, one-to-one correspondence). With a young child, the best way to make such a determination would be to observe and talk with the child as he or she interacts with various relevant materials