The Construction of the Natural Number’s Concept in Kindergarten: The “Go!” Game
摘要
The experimental teaching experience presented in this chapter was designed using the Theory of Semiotic Mediation and was conducted with 5-year-old children at three Italian kindergarten. The teaching experiment aimed to build the sense of natural number, through a game and the use of artefacts, from a vertical curriculum perspective. With an artefact and the game, the construction of the “sense” of three aspects of natural number was promoted: cardinal, ordinal and recursive understandings. Therefore, the game encouraged children to acquire the educational objectives expressed in the National Guidelines.