Teaching Number: Advancing Children's Skills and Strategies: Second Edition
Robert J Wright, Garry Stanger, James Martland, Ann K StaffordBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
The book presents nine guiding principles for advancing children's early number skills and offers clear strategies more advanced instruction in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division .
Synopsis
Researchers describe approaches to teaching numeracy to children aged four to eight years old, as developed in the Mathematics Recovery Programme and the Count Me Too projects in Australia, Britain, and the US. They focus on teaching number skills, knowledge, and understanding within the number strand of a primary mathematics curriculum. Among the factors the suggest teachers take into account are what knowledge the child possesses, current misunderstandings and misconceptions, and what specific materials to use. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR