Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom
A Teacher’s Guide to Initial Lessons
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-96502-6
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 5th August 2008
- Pages: 168
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About the Book
This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons they can use to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging. Each chapter is divided into four sections:
By providing models of what excellent lessons on a given topic look like, knowledge of the mathematics involved, and a concrete lesson plan structure this much-needed resource is the definitive mathematics planning vehicle that every teacher will want before they set foot in their own elementary classroom.
Table of Contents
@contents:Introduction
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?
About the Author(s)
Francis J. Gardella is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at Hunter College.
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