Number Sense Routines: Building Numerical Literacy Every Day in Grades K-3

ISBN-13: 9781571107909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 192 str.

Jessica F Shumway

Opis

Just as athletes stretch their muscles before every game and musicians play scales to keep their technique in tune, mathematical thinkers and problem solvers can benefit from daily warm-up exercises. Jessica Shumway has developed a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers. The daily use of these quick five-, ten-, or fifteen-minute experiences at the beginning of math class will help build students' number sense.

Students with strong number sense understand numbers, ways to represent numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems. They make reasonable estimates, compute fluently, use reasoning strategies (e.g., relate operations, such as addition and subtraction, to each other), and use visual models based on their number sense to solve problems. Students who never develop strong number sense will struggle with nearly all mathematical strands, from measurement and geometry to data and equations.

In Number Sense Routines, Jessica shows that number sense can be taught to all students. Dozens of classroom examples -- including conversations among students engaging in number sense routines -- illustrate how the routines work, how children's number sense develops, and how to implement responsive routines.

Additionally, teachers will gain a deeper understanding of the underlying math -- the big ideas, skills, and strategies children learn as they develop numerical literacy.

Recenzje

"The insights, tools, and strategies for planning and instruction could be tailored to nearly any group of learners, in any school environment, with any curriculum. The book speaks directly to teachers, but it also has real potential to help parents integrate the development of numerical literacy into daily family routines." - Teaching Children Mathematics

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: Building Number Sense Through Routines; 1: Number Sense; 2: Improving Number Sense; Part II: Number Sense Routines; 3: Visual Routines; 4: Counting Routines; 5: Playing with Quantities; 6: Calendar and Data Routines; Part III: More than Just the Routine; 7: Learning from Each Other; 8: Planning Responsive Number Sense Routines; Conclusion

O autorze

Jessica Shumway has worked as a second-, third-, and fourth-grade classroom teacher and as a mathematics coach for teachers of prekindergarten through fifth-grade students in Texas and at Bailey’s Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is currently a doctoral student at Utah State University, where she instructs preservice teachers and studies mathematics education.