ECCE Math & Science Review

While Carrie strings beads for a necklace and says, " One, two, three, for five, I caught a fish alive," she is

• rational counting

• rote counting

• matching

• ordering

Children with special needs may need extra structured experiences such as finger plays and rhymes and counting concrete objects in order to develop the concept of a number.

• true

• false

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

• Generalization

• Recognition

• Utilization

• All are correct

First, biggest , and last are words used when describing the process of

• contrasting

• comparing

• ordering

• measuring

Joey reaches into a bag to find his rock without looking at it. This task requires the use of touch, which is:

• auditory discrimination

• haptic discrimination

• visual discrimination

• visual- auditory

​Lev Vygotsky, a contemporary of Jean Piaget’s, differed from Piaget in that

• he did not agree that development occurs in stages.

• his work did not focus on mental activity.

• he put less emphasis on the importance of language.

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

Tia says she has more cookies than Ava. Each one picks up one cookie at a time, saying a different number name each time they pick up a cookie: “One, two, three, four, five.” The girls are

• rational counting

• rote counting

• ordering

• matching

Primary-age children can understand that organisms have basic needs.

• true

• false

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

• true

• false

Reasoning enables students to draw logical conclusions, apply logical classification skills, explain their thinking, justify their problem solutions and processes, apply patterns and relationships to arrive at solutions, and make sense of mathematics and science.

• true

• false