Children Count is an interpretive exploration into the teaching of mathematics to children. Through the use of narratives to make meaning of particular pedagogic events, the book explores the possibilities that exist for children and for teachers if mathematics is allowed to thrive in schools as a living human enterprise.

Autorentext

Mary M. Stordy is a university professor living in St. John s, Newfoundland. She researches and teaches in the areas of curriculum, teaching, and learning and specializes in elementary mathematics education. Resonating throughout Stordy s work is the strong message that young children have a great deal to say about their world and their lives in schools if teachers will listen to them.

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Contents: Beginnings Being Led On Reconceptualized Mathematics Hermeneutics: An Ontological Turn Another Way of Being with Children and Mathematics If 5 Is the Answer, What Might the Question Be? Things Are Not Always as They Seem: Entering the Classroom Living with the Cover Version of Mathematics Responsibility to Recover.