<p>This study highlights how pre-school teachers in a monocultural Swedish district looks at the concept of multiculturalism and what multiculturalism and /or intercultural approaches means in their pre-schools. The study takes its starting point in Johannes Lunneblads thesis "Förskolan och mångfalden" (2006) and Lpfö-98 (2006). The present study is a qualitative study in the form of interviews and the study have an intercultural and intentional perspective. The study shows that preschool teachers in the area perceive multicultural work as a compensatory education for children with non-European background. An analysis of the interviews on a deeper level shows that there is a broader understanding of multiculturalism that includes the class, sexuality and everyone of the children's "home culture”. About the pre-school teachers in this study can be said that there is an intercultural attitude in certain situations.</p>

This study highlights how pre-school teachers in a monocultural Swedish district looks at the concept of multiculturalism and what multiculturalism and /or intercultural approaches means in their pre-schools. The study takes its starting point in Johannes Lunneblads thesis "Förskolan och mångfalden" (2006) and Lpfö-98 (2006). The present study is a qualitative study in the form of interviews and the study have an intercultural and intentional perspective. The study shows that preschool teachers in the area perceive multicultural work as a compensatory education for children with non-European background. An analysis of the interviews on a deeper level shows that there is a broader understanding of multiculturalism that includes the class, sexuality and everyone of the children's "home culture”. About the pre-school teachers in this study can be said that there is an intercultural attitude in certain situations.

Purpose: The current thesis assignment aims to explain, understand and follow the strategies the young children employ into a conception of numbers. This thesis is based on a study performed by Doverborg and Pramling Samuelson. The following research questions serve to refine the stated goal: How mathematical thinking regarding conception of numbers occurs within younger children and which strategies they use? How is the interaction between the teacher and the younger children? Method: The study is organized as a qualitative study and was conducted in a pre-school with a group of four children. The children that have participated within my study are between two and three years old. They were filmed in four exercises. Then the films were transcribed. The method used is an analytic approach intentional analysis which allows studying the children´s strategies according to the established questions and also it makes it possible to follow how they think regarding mathematics. Conclusion: My study group shows in the final results that they in their strategies made use of one or more principles in their conception of numbers. / Syfte: Bidra till en bättre förståelse för små barns tänkande kring matematik. Jag utgår ifrån Doverborg och Pramling Samuelsons studie som behandlar antalsuppfattning i matematik hos de yngsta barnen. Följande frågeställningar syftar har undersökts: Hur sker de yngsta barnens matematiska tänkande omkring antalsuppfattning och vilka strategier de använder sig av? Hur sker samspelet mellan pedagogen och de yngre barnen? Metod: Studien är upplagd som en kvalitativ studie och genomfördes i en förskola med en grupp på fyra barn. De barn som har deltagit i min studie är mellan två och tre år gamla. De filmades i fyra övningar varefter filmsekvenserna transkriberades. Metoden som använts är en analytisk metod intentionell analys som gör det möjligt att studera barnens strategier i enlighet med fastställda frågor och även gör det möjligt att följa hur de tänker om matematik. Slutsats: Min undersökningsgrupp visar i slutresultatet att de i sina strategier använde sig av en eller flera principer i antalsuppfattning, nämligen principen om ett till ett korespondens, principen om den stabila ordningen, kardinalprincipen, och principen om godtycklig ordning. Barnen kan också urskilja grupper av två eller tre föremål, det vill säga subitizing.