Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom

This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons that can be used to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

@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?