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@juliangrenier @ThinkingMaths @elresearchsch Good afternoon everyone!
This is Day 3 of our thoughts as a result of a reading the above blog by @juliangrenier and @thinkingmaths. Today we focus on spatial experiences, pattern, shape, space and measures. We will tag in days 1&2 at the end of today's thread ...
This is Day 3 of our thoughts as a result of a reading the above blog by @juliangrenier and @thinkingmaths. Today we focus on spatial experiences, pattern, shape, space and measures. We will tag in days 1&2 at the end of today's thread ...
@juliangrenier @ThinkingMaths @elresearchsch 2 ... Despite the lack of evidence about causal effects on number of teaching spatial reasoning, especially in terms of randomised control trials, overall, we need to better understand the relation between spatial skills & wider maths, especially before children begin school...
@juliangrenier @ThinkingMaths @elresearchsch 3 ... The overwhelming predictive evidence suggests we would be foolish not to try to teach children's spatial visualisation. Hawes & Ansari (2020 p466) cite Mix & Cheng (2012): ...
I'm going to spend some of today reading the new #DevelopmentMatters in depth and tweeting some extracts/questions. Currently pondering this bit - how do we define "high-quality play"? 
Sitting here with copies of the old and new versions of #DevelopmentMatters in front of me. One obvious observation is that the old version feels much easier to 'dip in and out' of, because of the way that it's structured.
I think that diagrams like this, from the front of the old #DevelopmentMatters are really useful in helping people conceptualise how it all hangs together in #EYFS.
