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Math and Science for Young Children, 9th Edition

Rebecca Howard, Ph.D., Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D.

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Math and Science for Young Children 9th Edition by Rebecca Howard, Ph.D./Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D.
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Howard/Charlesworth's MATH AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN, 9th EDITION, introduces readers to engaging math and science experiences for early childhood and early elementary education programs. It provides an organized, sequential approach to creating a developmentally appropriate STEM curriculum and the content aligns with key guidelines and standards, including The National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) Professional Standards and Competencies (2020); Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) guidelines (2021); Common Core Mathematics Standards; and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This edition also addresses STEM/STEAM and the essential domains of child growth and development during the crucial birth-through-eight age range. A valuable resource for the student/future teacher, working professional or involved parent, this edition emphasizes the interrelatedness of STEM content and how the content can be integrated into all other curriculum areas.

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Rebecca Howard, Ph.D.

Rebecca Howard, Ph.D., is an early childhood consultant, professional development trainer and university instructor. She was a faculty member at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she held a variety of teaching and advising positions since 2000 in teacher education, educational leadership, interdisciplinary studies and theater. She founded the Oxford Early Childhood Center in 1986, and was owner/administrator and lead teacher until the program closed in 2014. While operating OECC, she created the OECC Integrated Curriculum, which was grounded in creativity and culturally responsive practice as foundational pedagogical components of a comprehensive approach to development across domains. She has presented at numerous professional conferences, provided extensive professional development trainings over a wide range of topics, published articles for Childhood Education and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and authored a chapter on dramatic play and gender performance in the book "Children Under Construction: Play as Curriculum" (2010). In 2023, she authored a major revision of the 12th edition of Mary Mayesky’s "Creative Activities and Curriculum for Young Children," and in 2025 authored a major revision of the 9th edition of Rosalind Charlesworth’s "Math and Science for Young Children," both for Cengage.

Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D.

Rosalind Charlesworth, Ph.D., was professor emerita and retired department chair in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Dr. Charlesworth’s career in early childhood education included experiences with both typical and non-typical young children in laboratory schools, public schools and day care centers, plus research in social and cognitive development and behavior. Throughout her career, she was known for her contributions to research on early childhood teachers' beliefs and practices. In 1999, she was the co-recipient of the NAECTE/Allyn & Bacon Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator award. In 2014, she received the Legacy Award from the Weber State University Child and Family Studies Department in recognition of her contributions to early childhood education. Dr. Charlesworth passed away in 2021, and leaves behind a legacy as a deeply respected and valued early childhood educator, author, advocate, mentor and inspiration to many in the field.

What's New

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  • Increased emphasis on problem-solving, discourse and hands-on activities that are relevant to a child’s experience and environment as the basis for concept and skill development. Significant updates to research and resources also reflect current practice for specific STEM content as well as overall child development.
  • Technology for Young Children boxed features address the role that digital technology tools are playing in children's education and have been updated to reflect the rapidly evolving content available for the application of digital technology in learning environments.
  • Sections that address Support for English Language Learners and Cultural Diversity have been separated out from “Special Needs” sections to reflect that ELL status is actually a cultural context that offers benefits for all children in a classroom. Each section suggests strategies for insuring that activities, experiences, environments and instruction are inclusive of all children from varied backgrounds and cultural contexts.
  • The content has been rearranged and enhanced to elevate science, technology and engineering to a more equal representation with math in the text. Content has been redesigned for better readability, with fewer visual interruptions of text. STEM experiences have been integrated into other curriculum areas so that the title can be used in integrated or separate math and science methods courses.
  • An appendix has been added that gathers all the examples of integration across domains and content areas in one convenient location.

Features

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  • Assessment and instructional tasks are presented in developmental sequence, with adaptations throughout, for students with special needs.
  • Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter correlate with main headings within the chapter and with the end-of-chapter summaries. The objectives focus students' reading and show them what they should know, understand and be able to demonstrate or apply after completing the chapter.
  • Improved integration of early childhood and primary grades professional standards helps students make connections between what they learn in the text and the standards. A complete list of the standards addressed in the book appears in a chart on the inside covers.
  • TeachSource Videos present footage from the classroom to help students relate key chapter content to real-life scenarios. The videos are introduced in the text, accompanied by critical-thinking questions that provide opportunities for in-class or online discussion and reflection.

Table of Contents

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Part I: CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS.
1. Development, Acquisition, Problem Solving, and Assessment.
2. Basics of Science, Technology, and Engineering.
Part II: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS AND SKILLS.
3. Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Concepts and Skills: Mathematics—One-to-One Correspondence, Number Sense, Logic/Classification, Comparison, Early Geometry.
4. Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Concepts and Skills: Spatial Sense, Parts and Wholes, and Applications of Fundamental Concepts to Science and Engineering.
5. Pre-K—Kindergarten: Ordering, Measurement, and Data Collection and Analysis.
Part III: INTEGRATING STEAM ACROSS THE CURRICULUM.
6. Integrating the Curriculum.
Part IV: HIGHER LEVEL CONCEPTS AND ACTIVITIES.
7. Transitioning from Preschool to Kindergarten to Primary.
Part V: MATHEMATICS CONCEPTS AND OPERATIONS FOR THE PRIMARY GRADES.
8. Whole Number Operations, Patterns and Fractions.
9. Place Value, Geometry and Data Analysis, and Measurement.
Part VI: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING FOR THE PRIMARY GRADES.
10. Overview of Primary Science, Life Science, and Physical Science.
11. Earth and Space Sciences, Environmental Awareness, Engineering, Technology and Science Applications.
Part VII: THE STEM ENVIRONMENT.
12. Materials and Resources for supporting STEM in the Classroom and in the Home.

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