Key concepts in teaching primary mathematics / Derek Haylock with Fiona Thangata.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haylock, Derek
Other Authors: Thangata, Fiona
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.
Series:SAGE key concepts.
Subjects:
Mathematics > Study and teaching (Elementary)
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
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.

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