Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom [ a teacher's guide to initial lessons
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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 looking 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?