With a focus on children's mathematical thinking, this second edition adds new material on the mathematical principles underlying children's strategies, a new online video that illustrates student teacher interaction, and examines the relationship between CGI and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
This book is for pre-K to 1st grade and shows how teachers can promote math development in ways that honor children's thinking.--
Three themes appear throughout the book: building meaning for fractions and decimals through discussing and solving word problems the progression of children's strategies for solving fraction word problems and equations from direct modeling ...
This volume provides documentation of the proceedings of this important meeting - - the Early Childhood Action Group of the Sixth International Congress on Mathematics Education.
Teaching Young Children Mathematics provides a comprehensive overview of mathematics instruction in the early childhood classroom.
Children Doing Mathematics provides a reliable and up to date review of the substantial recent work in children' mathematical understanding.
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By the time they begin school, most children have already developed a sophisticated, informal understanding of basic mathematical concepts and problem-solving strategies. Too often, however, the mathematics instruction that we...
This work uses data from the authors' own research on children's performance, errors and misconceptions across the mathematics curriculum.
Children's books provide an authentic context for using mathematics. They celebrate mathematics as a language for describing and framing our world. And they are also a nonthreatening vehicle for investigating...
This practical guide will be invaluable to all trainee teachers and early-career teachers that wish to enhance their primary mathematics teaching.