1st Edition
Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom A Teacher’s Guide to Initial Lessons
By Francis J. Gardella
Copyright 2009
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons they can use to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging. Each chapter is divided into four sections:
The Activity employs an engaging thought experiment to help the reader "visit a classroom" to understand how the lesson used to introduce the concept... Read more
Introduction 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 Look 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?
Biography
Francis J. Gardella is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at Hunter College.
