Developing Number Sense: Progression in the Middle Years

by Julia Anghileri

Overview

What is number sense? How do children develop number sense? What are the most effective teaching methods and resources? How can research findings inform classroom practice? This fascinating book, designed as a companion volume to Teaching Number Sense for the later primary and early secondary years, will help you answer these questions, and more. Reflecting recent research into children's mathematical learning, Julia Anghileri focuses on the connections that help to develop understanding, such as how counting underpins many calculating methods and the way mental working and informal jotting can support problem solving. She uses a balance of theory and practice to help teachers deal with the problems and issues they encounter on a day-to-day basis in mathematics teaching, including examples for use specifically in the classroom. This book will prove essential reading for trainee and established mathematics teachers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847061263
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/15/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Julia Anghileri is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is a consultant to the both the National Numeracy Strategy and the QCA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Numeracy in the 21st century.

Chapter 2: Understanding Numbers


Chapter 3: Making Sense of the Operations




Chapter 4: Developing Additive Thinking




Chapter 5: Developing Muliplicative Thinking




Chapter 6: Calculating with Measures




Chapter 7: Decimals, Fractions and Percentages


Chapter 8: Problem solving with Numbers

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