Educación matemática en el Kindergarten:Estudio comparativo de los currículos de Ecuador,Chile y Singapur

Abstract

Curriculum materials have a positive or negative impact on children ́s learning, depending on its contents and on the way the curriculum is monitored. Therefore, in most of the world there is a public interest in conducting international comparisons among the educational curricula of their countries in order to improve the quality of education their children receive. However, none of these studies includes the Ecuadorian curriculum (in the area of mathematics) for Kindergarten. Consequently, this study aims at conducting a comparative analysis of the Kindergarten curricula of Ecuador, Chile, and Singapore in relation to the skills (what to teach), sequence (when to teach) and methodology (how to teach) proposed in each of the curricula. Results indicate that the curricula share common features as well as they present significant differences, especially in terms of the precision and detail of its given skills as well as the specificity of the recommended strategies for working with children