Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom
Subtitle: a teacher's guide to initial lessons
By: Francis J. Gardella.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415965026; 9780203891179
Subjects: Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Curriculum planning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: How children learn mathematics (and why it doesn?t happen!); value: Median : finding what's in the middle; value: Rounding : the mystery of "rounding up for 5"; value: Skipping multiplication (or at least through it); value: Learning to use division; value: Fractions : what's it all about?; value: Fractions : adding unlike things' impossible!!!; value: Fractions : dividing into small pieces; value: Decimals : operations before rules; value: Measurement : make your own ruler; value: Area : skipping through the rows; value: Volume : it's like look at an apartment house?; value: Mean : how much does each get?; value: Percent : leveling the field of comparison; value: Order of operations : an agreement? did you get the memo?