ABSTRACT
“Action Group Al: Early Childhood Years” was one of the action groups of the Sixth International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-6) held in Budapest, Hungary, from July 27 to August 3, 1988. The general goal of the action group was to identify the issues, problems, and opportunities presented by a constructivist’s perspective for mathematics education in early childhood and to make recommendations for the work in this area over the next 4 years—until ICME-7. The action group was in itself an experiment in which the participants, some representing a constructivist perspective, were brought together in an effort to provide an international forum for accomplishing this general goal.
