denkvorming

English translation: cognitive skills

16:38 Nov 2, 2020
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / Belgian/Flemish preschool teacher training
Dutch term or phrase: denkvorming
This is a course on a university transcript for 1st Year initiële lerarenopleiding leraar kleuteronderwijs. Belgian, 2003. There's no other information on that specific course.

I've found part of a curriculum for another school. It looks like the class includes basics of how to measure volume, distance. Collections, basic arithmetic. Patterns. Same and different within a collection. How to tell time. Logical order of things.

It looks like the basics of how to look at the environment we’re moving around in and make sense of it, but I'm having trouble thinking of a course name that would make sense.

Do we have something like that in American English?
Elizeth Labega
United States
Local time: 04:06
English translation:cognitive skills
Explanation:
Cognitive skill development in children involves the progressive building of learning skills, such as attention, memory and thinking. These crucial skills enable children to process sensory information and eventually learn to evaluate, analyze, remember, make comparisons and understand cause and effect.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-are-cognitive-skills-in...
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philgoddard
United States
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Thank you ever so much! This is what I used.
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4 +1cognitive skills
philgoddard
3early math skills; pre-math skills
Kitty Brussaard


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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cognitive skills


Explanation:
Cognitive skill development in children involves the progressive building of learning skills, such as attention, memory and thinking. These crucial skills enable children to process sensory information and eventually learn to evaluate, analyze, remember, make comparisons and understand cause and effect.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-are-cognitive-skills-in...

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you ever so much! This is what I used.

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agree  Richard Purdom: makes sense to me
1 day 7 hrs
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
early math skills; pre-math skills


Explanation:
Based on what you already found yourself and on the below references, I'd probably opt for 'early math skills' (BE early maths skills) or 'pre-math skills' (BE pre-maths skills) rather than more literal or elaborate translations such as '(promoting the) development of mathematical thinking in young children (i.e., preschoolers and kindergarteners)'.

https://www.arteveldehogeschool.be/blendedlerenoko/wiko/?pag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-math_skills

https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/early-...

Kitty Brussaard
Netherlands
Local time: 11:06
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 50
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks very much! That sounds good, but after much hemming and hawing, I selected the other, much more general term in this particular case.


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neutral  philgoddard: I don't think things like recognising patterns and telling the time can be described as math.
1 hr
  -> Hi Phil, both things are commonly mentioned in articles dedicated to the subject of pre-math skills. See, for example, https://www.education.com/magazine/article/preschool-math-pa... and https://earlymathcounts.org/lessons/telling-time/.
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