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Providing essential guidance and background information about teaching mathematics, this book is intended particularly for teachers who do not regard themselves as specialists in mathematics. It deals with issues of learning and teaching, including the delivery of content and the place of problems and investigations. Difficulties which pupils encounter in connection with language and symbols form important sections of the overall discussion of how to enhance learning.

The curriculum is considered in brief under the headings of number, algebra, shape and space, and data handling, and...

- Why do some students achieve more than others?
- Do we have to wait until pupils are "ready"?
- Can children discover math for themselves?
- Does language interfere with the learning of math?

This classic text, written from the viewpoint of the math teacher, provides answers to these and many more questions. Each chapter explores a particular issue that illustrates the interaction between theory and practice. New chapters have been included on cognition, pattern, and ICT.

- Why do some students achieve more than others?
- Do we have to wait until pupils are "ready"?
- Can children discover math for themselves?
- Does language interfere with the learning of math?

This classic text, written from the viewpoint of the math teacher, provides answers to these and many more questions. Each chapter explores a particular issue that illustrates the interaction between theory and practice. New chapters have been included on cognition, pattern, and ICT.

This highly illustrated book draws together the wide variety of studies in the learning of mathematics undertaken by the Pattern in Mathematics Research Group at the University of Leeds. Their purpose has been '... to provide structure and support to ... studies of children's perception, conception and use of pattern in learning mathematics'. Set up in 1992, they have embraced work across the whole curriculum, and through all the years of compulsory schooling.

As each chapter of this book relates to a different study that was undertaken, the reader can dip in and select relevant...