Understanding Number & Operations: Math for Parents, Teachers and Tutors

Understanding Number & Operations is for parents, teachers & tutors who believe that school mathematics should encompass more than vocabulary, notation, and computational skills. It must also foster curiosity, encourage persistence, structure discourse, and facilitate discovery, problem-solving, critical thinking, and proof. For that to happen, mathematics education must be about more than "how"; it must also be about "why". This book was written for adults who want to help students make th...