Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom a teacher's guide to initial lessons /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- How children learn mathematics (and why it doesn't happen!)
- Median : finding what's in the middle
- Rounding : the mystery of "rounding up for 5"
- Skipping multiplication (or at least through it)
- Learning to use division
- Fractions : what's it all about?
- Fractions : adding unlike things? Impossible!
- Fractions : dividing into small pieces?
- Decimals : operations before rules
- Measurement : make your own ruler
- Area : skipping through the rows
- Volume : it's like looking at an apartment house--
- Mean : how much does each get?
- Percent : leveling the field of comparison
- Order of operations? : an agreement? Did you get the memo?