Bob Wright

TL;DR: In this article, a number of assertions relating to curricula, teaching, learners, and learning environments in lower primary school mathematics are discussed, including unchanging and under-challenging curricula; the need for greater emphasis on developing children's verbal number strategies and number sense, and on activities specifically suited to prenumerical children; curriculum constraints on teachers; the role of problem solving and differing interpretations of problem-solving; differences in children's knowledge; "anti-interventionism,” discovery learning, constructivism, children's autonomy and developmental learning;

TL;DR: The Count Me In Too program in New South Wales, Australia as mentioned in this paper was one of the first to recognize the importance of the early childhood years in the development of numeracy and recognized the need for early childhood education.