LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND NUMERICAL THINKING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW

The work sought to determine the features of the development of language and numerical thinking in initial education from a bibliographic review. The bibliographic material regarding the development of language and mathematics was collected and documentary reviewed. In the research it was found that the family plays a fundamental role in the construction of previous knowledge of informal mathematics and the construction of the symbolization of reality based on the basic needs and needs of the family in accordance with the school that broadens the context academic. The skills that are developed in the basic areas of the curriculum at the initial level are sequencing, magnitude comparison, positioning, imitation, inference, relationship, self-regulation as part of the child's phonetic awareness. On the other hand, the pre-school teacher plays a fundamental role as an agent of experience for the development of basic areas, since the development of the skills that will serve as the basis for the other levels depends on him.