Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom: A Teacher's Guide to Initial Lessons

ISBN-13: 9781138460249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Francis J. Gardella

Opis

Offers hands on mathematics lessons that can be used to introduce mathematical concepts and skills which students find particularly challenging. This book is suitable for the pre-service elementary teacher.

Spis treści

ntroduction 1. How Children Learn Mathematics (and Why it Doesn’t Happen!) 2. Median: Finding What’s in the Middle 3. Rounding: The Mystery of ‘Rounding up for 5’ 4. Skipping Multiplication (or at Least Through it.) 5. Learning to Use Division 6. Fractions: What’s it all About? 7. Fractions: Adding Unlike Things? Impossible! 8. Fractions: Dividing into Small Pieces 9. Decimals: Operations Before Rules 10. Measurement: Make your Own Ruler 11. Area: Skipping Through the Rows 12. Volume: It’s Like Look at an Apartment House ….. 13. Mean: How Much Does Each Get? 14. Percent: Leveling the Field of Comparison 15. Order of Operations: An Agreement? Did You Get the Memo?

O autorze

Francis J. Gardella is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at Hunter College.