The purpose of this study is to analyze the mathematics contents that involve life themes and activity types, provided for young children, based on the daily child care plans drawn up by day care center teachers and identify how such are being actually applied at day care centers. For a frequency-based analysis, daily education plans used for classes in seven day care centers located in P City were collected., All the daily education plans were found to accord with the names and contents of daily activity by life theme in the standardized child care curriculum for young children aged two.
The findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, the most frequent mathematics education content in the daily child care plans was ‘taking interest in space and figure and classifying the twos,’ whereas ‘taking interest in simple rules’ was the least frequent. By life theme, ‘playing animals’ and ‘enjoying colorful autumn’ were the most frequent, whereas in mathematics education contents, ‘taking interest in space and figure and classifying the twos’ was the most frequent and ‘taking interest in simple rules’ was the least frequent. Second, the indoor free play activity with the greatest number of mathematics contents was ‘sense/exploration area of interest’. In addition, in mathematics education contents, ‘taking interest in space and figure’ was the most frequent, with the most frequent sub-topic being ‘taking interest in shape of objects around us.’