Mathematical Learning Opportunities in Kindergarten through the Use of Digital Tools: Affordances and Constraints

Abstract

This study aims at scrutinising the mathematical learning opportunities of children engaging with digital tools and the emerging affordances and constraints faced in such settings. By adopting a sociocultural perspective on learning and development, the multimodal analysis of the adult–child interaction shows that the children are participants in processes of appropriating the mathematical concepts of sorting and counting. Affordances are taken advantage of by the adults and constraints causing didactical dissonance are overcome and transformed into didactical harmony.

Keywords

• Appropriation
• Digital tools
• Kindergarten
• Mathematics