num_pages: 192
description: In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the NSF and Exxon Mobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work , Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms. In this second volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5. Their 
language: English
title: Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Multiplication and Division
titlecomplete: Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Multiplication and Division
genres: Mathematics, Education
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Heinemann