Title:
Teaching and learning mathematics : pre-kindergarten through middle school
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Edition:
5th ed.
Publication Information:
New Jersey, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2005
Physical Description:
x, 527 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:
9780471151609
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Summary
Summary
Designed to support teachers as they build mathematical understanding, strengthen students' abilities to think, help students make sense of mathematics, and assist students in attaining computational fluency. Emphasizes problem posing and problem solving, and encourages teachers to invite children to use their own higher-level thinking processes, including mental calculation and estimation.
Author Notes
Linda Jensen Sheffield and Douglas E. Cruikshank are the authors of Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Pre-Kindergarten through Middle School, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.
Table of Contents
| 1 Preparing to Teach Mathematics |
| 2 Children and Mathematics |
| 3 Organizing for Mathematics Instruction |
| 4 Reasoning, Solving, Posing and Extended Problems |
| 5 Attaching Meaning to Numbers |
| 6 Teaching and Learning Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers and Integers |
| 7 Teaching and Learning Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers and Integers |
| 8 Attaching Meaning to Rational Numbers |
| 9 Teaching and Learning Operations with Rational Numbers |
| 10 Teaching and Learning Algebra |
| 11 Teaching and Learning Geometry |
| 12 Teaching and Learning Measurement |
| 13 Teaching and Learning Data Analysis and Probability |
| Appendix A Suppliers of Manipulative Materials, Books, Calculators, and Computer Software |
| Appendix B Blackline Masters |
| Index |
