Thinking with numbers
By: a production of WGBH in association with All Kinds of Minds
Contributors: WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); All Kinds of Minds Institute; WGBH Video (Firm)
Series: Developing minds; ECE 420 (NU course)
Publisher: WGBH Boston Video
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781593756246
Subjects: Learning; Psychology of Learning; Mathematics; Study and teaching (Elementary); Learning disabilities; Parent and child; Teacher-student relationships
Description: Learning math involves a variety of skills and if students struggle in one area,  they can fall behind and become anxious about math in general. Explore common problems students face, as well as practical strategies teachers and parents can use to help students succeed. Includes an overview, introduction for teachers and parents, and specific information on how things  affect a student's ability to think with numbers: memory, language, attention, spatial ordering and task ordering and higher order cognition.
Notes: Featuring Dr. Mel Levine; narrator: Madge Kaplan.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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Table of contents: title: Disc 1. Library overview; title: Introduction for teachers; title: Introduction for parents; title: A student profile; title: General strategies for teachers; title: General strategies for parents; title: Disc 2. Thinking with numbers; title: Temporal-sequential ordering; title: Spatial ordering; title: Higher order cognition; title: Disc 3. Attention; title: Language; title: Memory.