THE IMPORTANCE OF USING THE COMPUTER IN ACQUIRING MATHEMATICAL NOTIONS AT THE PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION LEVEL
THE IMPORTANCE OF USING THE COMPUTER IN ACQUIRING MATHEMATICAL NOTIONS AT THE PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION LEVEL

Summary/Abstract: At the pre-school age, children get acquainted with the first mathematics notions on which the mathematics knowledge is going to be built later, throughout the school years’ age. At this level, the focus is first and foremost placed on the formative aspect, envisaging the operating structures of thought, and less on the informative one, represented by the cognitive structures. From this point of view, one of the most important mathematics concepts introduced during pre-school age, is the arithmetic operation, as one of a decisive importance. On the base of the operation notion (addition or subtraction) is the idea of acting on reality, an action having as a consequence the transformation of an initial state into a final state. The computer, by its specific educational programs, has the capacity to illustrate this dynamics when one operates with iconic representations of the objects, an aspect facilitating the child’s understanding of notions. Consequently, the present paper aims at arguing, from a double perspective, (mathematical and methodological) the advantages of computer integrating into the didactic strategy. Also, it tries to demonstrate the fact that every aspect that is perceived as a “weakness” of computer use in the kindergarten can be approached as a “strength” , as long as one knows the characteristic features of pre-school child, on the one hand, and the peculiar features of creating the mathematical notions with pre-school children, on the other hand.

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