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This textbook was developed as part of the Textbook Transformation Grants for the Affordable Learning Georgia project. The book was designed to be used in ECED 3300, Mathematics and Technology in Early Childhood. This is a check-point course, and check-point requirements must be met. Recent developments in curriculum and methods on instruction of contemporary school mathematics in grades P-5, including the use of manipulative materials, technology, and other resources.

In fall 2014, two faculty members began the process of converting ECED 3300 to a course using Open Educational Resources (OER). Previously the John Van De Walle textbook, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (8th ed.) had been used as the required textbook for the course. This text had been selected because it was used in professional development for teachers throughout the state and many schools had copies available in media centers. The faculty members knew that it would be very difficult to teach this course without the Van De Walle textbook. The faculty members had been exposed to Open Stacks as a resource for online texts, but unfortunately it did not include any textbooks that could be used in teaching a math methods course, math pedagogical content or developmental math. The first step in the transformation from the text to OER was to divide the course into logical chunks and to search for websites to support our student’s students’ learning. The faculty members also decided to include journal articles as a way of supporting material found online

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