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1. Which of the following would be most effective to help young children learn geometry?
2. Which of the following is a rational number?
3. A group of five- and six-year-olds watch a teacher demonstrate measuring things with a standard ruler.  Some students want to know why the teacher aligns the number 0 on the ruler with the first edge of an object, instead of starting with the number 1 as they do when they count.  Which choice is the best answer for the teacher to give?
4. Regarding young children's early comprehension of fractions, which of these is accurate?
5. Which level of shape perception do young children typically develop first?
6. Which of these is correct regarding young children and the measurement of time?
7. A number system in which the position of a digit in a number determines its value is called a
8. Which of these is true about children's transition from intuitive thinking to formal math education?
9. Of the following, which preschool activity is most related to learning 1:1 correspondence?
10. How can an EC teacher best facilitate children's development of math communication and literacy?
11. Regarding the relationship of cognitive problem-solving skills to mathematics, which of these is true?
12. Which of the following is most accurate regarding young children's development of numeracy skills?
13. What is a correct statement about the development of number sense in young children?
14. Which of these is true about having an awareness of patterns and relationships in the real world?
15. Preschoolers' development of spatial awareness will later support their comprehension of which areas of math the most?
16. Of the following, which is prerequisite for young children to understand before they can engage in accurately estimating basic measurements of quantities?
17. A teacher asks ten preschoolers to choose their favorite among four colors of foil stars.  Five children pick gold; three choose silver; two select blue; and one picks red.  The teacher then helps the student to stick the stars onto a paper chart with a separate row for each color:

This activity supports which of the following early mathematics skills?
18. What is the most effective way to facilitate children's comprehension of mathematics?
19. Which of the following is true regarding children's development of the concept of symbolic representation?
20. The property of numbers that states that 1 + 3 is the same as 3 + 1 is called
21. Which of the following statements is an example of using ordinal numbers?
22. Suppose that a child in a preschool learning center enjoys sorting different rocks by color.  Which of the following teacher practices is the best example of emphasis on connecting the informal math activity with formal math vocabulary?
23. For three days, Mr. Hanson had his students keep track of how many times each of them used a pencil during the school day. What is the best kind of graph to use to display these data?
24. A teacher regularly integrates math into everyday EC activities.  By asking young children to help at snack time by putting one snack on each plate, which math skill is the teacher primarily engaging?
25. A teacher presents this figure and asks the class how many different rectangles they can find in it.


Which student response is correct?

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