Teaching Mathematics Creatively

by Linda Pound, Trisha Lee

Overview

This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject.

In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way.

Key chapters of this book explore:

• Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale

• Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them

• Music and maths – the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths

Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367518424
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2021
Series:	Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Linda Pound has great educational experience and has published extensively in the fields of children’s learning, creativity and mathematical development. She is an Early Years Education Consultant, running workshops and offering advice on both educational policy and practice.

Trisha Lee is Founder and Artistic Director of MakeBelieve Arts, an education charity that believes in the power of story to engage children with learning. Trisha pioneered the work of Vivian Gussin Paley in the UK through her Helicopter Stories approach and is a regular speaker and writer around creative education, particularly in the early years.

Table of Contents

Series editor preface Introduction: What counts as creative mathematics? I hate maths! Positive feelings, creative dispositions and mathematics Motivating children: Problem finding and problem solving Developing understanding: Seeing, talking and thinking mathematically Real maths! The mathematical potential in children’s lives Once upon a time: Using story to learn and teach maths Giant maths: The joy of solving enormous problems Across the curriculum: Putting mathematics at the heart Mathematical patterns: Playing music, maths and art Building mathematical understanding: Constructing and deconstructing Mathematics outdoors: the world beyond the classroom In conclusion: Playful teaching List of mathematical activities

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This book offers both a fantastic insight and vision for developing a creative classroom which encourages active engagement, collaboration, choice and learner-driven feedback.

The authors show that in promoting a creative learning environment you can encourage richer conceptions of learning and the development of a learning community that enables children to make plans, review their experiences which then enhances their predictive and analytical abilities and develop a sense of responsibility for themselves and the choices they make." - Glenys Ingham, Headteacher at Myatt Garden Primary School, London, UK

"With dramatic flair, Trisha Lee and Linda Pound combine their unique knowledge of theatre and education to demonstrate new ways of teaching maths. And guess what? It's all about telling stories and acting out ideas, just the thing children love to do. Page by page, the authors show us how to trust a playful approach and join the children in imagining a life of mathematical thinking." - Vivian Gussin Paley

"Teaching Mathematics Creatively is a valuable resource for mathematics education researchers at the elementary school level. Recommended. "—Choice

Editorial Reviews

'An inspiring book with an approach that really engages children with their learning, making excellent use of children's love for and response to story telling. The strengths of the authors - Linda Pound is an Early Years Education Consultant and Trisha Lee is Founder and Artistic Director of MakeBelieve Arts - have been brought together to bring us an excellent teaching resource.'- Sarah Brew, Parents in Touch

From the Publisher