Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics
The ability to use flexible strategies when faced with a calculation to do ‘in the head’ is important to acquire. Many children who rely on remembered facts and standard procedures are limited in their approaches to mental computation. Teaching that develops insights, awareness, and connections appe...
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Mathematical Association of Victoria (MAV)
2006
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| description | The ability to use flexible strategies when faced with a calculation to do ‘in the head’ is important to acquire. Many children who rely on remembered facts and standard procedures are limited in their approaches to mental computation. Teaching that develops insights, awareness, and connections appears to give this important flexibility and enable children to make sensible and effective choices of calculating strategies. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-529862017-05-25T03:08:12Z Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics Sparrow, Len Swan, Paul The ability to use flexible strategies when faced with a calculation to do ‘in the head’ is important to acquire. Many children who rely on remembered facts and standard procedures are limited in their approaches to mental computation. Teaching that develops insights, awareness, and connections appears to give this important flexibility and enable children to make sensible and effective choices of calculating strategies. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52986 http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/ Mathematical Association of Victoria (MAV) fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Sparrow, Len Swan, Paul Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title | Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title_full | Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title_fullStr | Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title_short | Insights into number: Developing flexible mental mathematics |
| title_sort | insights into number: developing flexible mental mathematics |
| url | http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52986 |