This edited book brings together for the first time an international collection of work focused on two important aspects of any young child's life - learning mathematics and starting primary or elementary school. The chapters take a variety of perspectives, and integrate these two components in sometimes explicit and sometimes more subtle ways.

The key issues and themes explored in this book are:

• the mathematical and other strengths that all participants in the transition to school bring to this period of a child's life;
• the opportunities provided by transition to...