Mathematical Development of Preschool Children in Implementation Conditions of the New State Educational Standards
Mathematical education takes a special place in the system of preschool, general and professional education in Russia. Lately there were essential changes in approaches to the content of mathematical education, there were new documents regulating the educational activity in kindergartens. In the article the review of the main stages of development of the technique (technology) of elementary mathematical representations formation of preschool age children is made, ideas of teachers and researchers on children’s mathematical development are designated. The content of the child’s mathematical development reflected in various educational programmes for preschool institutions is revealed. Modern technologies and means of mathematical material assimilation and systematization by the preschool age child (modeling, solution of problem situations) are designated, the role of modern computer developing programmes with the mathematical contents is emphasized. A special place in the article is given to the analysis of modern requirements to development of preschool children’s mathematical representations in conditions of implementation of the preschool education federal state educational standards. The urgent problems facing kindergartens in the field of children’s intellectual development, problems concerning selection of effective technologies, means, forms of the organization of preschool children’s mathematical development at the present stage are allocated.