Key concepts in teaching primary mathematics /
Covering the key principles and concepts in the teaching and learning of mathematics in elementary schools, this text provides trainee and practicing teachers with a quick and easy reference to what they need to know for their course, and in the classroom.
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Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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Series: | SAGE key concepts.
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Table of Contents:
- Aims of mathematics teaching
- Algorithm
- Anxiety about mathematics
- Assessment for learning
- Assessment for teaching
- Cognitive conflict
- Concept learning
- Conservation of quantity
- Constructivism
- Creativity in mathematics
- Cross-cultural mathematics
- Cross-curricular mathematics
- Deductive and inductive reasoning
- Differentiation
- Equivalence
- Errors
- Explanation
- Gender and mathematics
- Generalization
- Giftedness in mathematics
- Home as a context for numeracy
- Informal calculation method
- Investigation (enquiry)
- Language difficulties in mathematics
- Low attainment
- Making connections
- Match and mismatch
- Meaningful context
- Meaningful learning
- Mental calculation
- Modelling process (representing)
- Numeracy
- Play as a context for learning mathematics
- Principle learning
- Problem solving
- Purposeful activity
- Questioning
- Rote learning
- Skill learning
- Talk
- Transformation
- Transitivity
- Using and applying mathematics.