Oral Story Telling And Teaching Mathematics provides the first serious exploration of the role that oral storytelling can play in helping children learn mathematics. It should be of interest to those concerned with providing children with powerful mathematical and literary experiences and those concerned with multicultural education. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the full text of two epic stories plus addition worksheets and handouts.
Oral Story Telling And Teaching Mathematics provides the first serious exploration of the role that oral storytelling can play in helping children lea...
"Schiro (Boston College) has written a text that examines curriculum theory for experience and pre-service educators with the purpose of understanding educational philosohpies or ideologies that they are likely to encounter in their teaching." --H.B. Arnold, CHOICE
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"Schiro (Boston College) has written a text that examines curriculum theory for experience and pre-service educators with the purpose of unders...