@misc{Dobrowolska_Małgorzata_Teacher_2017,
 author={Dobrowolska, Małgorzata},
 copyright={Copyright by Małgorzata Dobrowolska},
 address={Wrocław},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Instytut Pedagogiki Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego},
 language={pol},
 abstract={Mathematics occupies a special position in the contemporary education. As a common language of man and nature, it is a crucial subject for the student’s future career in a world dominated by technology. On the other hand, it plays a social function adequate for its royal title: as befits a true queen, it ennobles or degrades, perpetuates the existing hierarchy or reshuffles it, punishes and rewards, disciplines and liberates. Research shows that a small child is a born mathematician, and a vast majority of kindergarten children show predispositions to learning this subject. Despite this fact, a widely shared belief sees mathematics as a knowledge for the chosen ones, and similar surveys, carried out for older pupils, seem to confirm this notion. In this paper, we propose a way out of this apparent paradox, by re-defining the role of a teacher in the mathematical education of a small child.},
 title={Teacher as a key element of the educational environment of a young child in mathematics education},
 keywords={early school education, mathematics, math for children, math teacher, preschool education teacher, young child},
}