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PRIMARY STAGE OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE LEARNING
Authors: Sanjeev Sonawane & Ms. Arpita Sudheer Phatak
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Primary and basic Mathematics and Science education has to be a phase of joyful learning for the
child with ample opportunities for exploration of the environment, to interact with it and to talk about
it. The main objectives at this stage are to arouse curiosity about the world (natural environment,
artifacts and people) and have the child engage in exploratory and hands-on activities that lead to the
development of basic cognitive and psychomotor skills through language, observation, recording,
differentiation, classification, inference, drawing, illustrations, design and fabrication, estimation and
measurement. The curriculum should also help the child internalize the values of cleanliness, honesty,
co-operation, concern for life and environment. At the primary stage, children are actively
developing their language skills – speaking, reading and writing, which is important to articulate
their thoughts and develop the framework for observing the world. This is the stage, therefore, to
emphasize on simple concepts.