| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 191 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
SAGE key concepts |
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SAGE key concepts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary |
Covering the key principles and concepts in the teaching and learning of mathematics in elementary schools, this text provides trainee and practicing teachers with a quick and easy reference to what they need to know for their course, and in the classroom. |
| Contents |
Aims of mathematics teaching -- Algorithm -- Anxiety about mathematics -- Assessment for learning -- Assessment for teaching -- Cognitive conflict -- Concept learning -- Conservation of quantity -- Constructivism -- Creativity in mathematics -- Cross-cultural mathematics -- Cross-curricular mathematics -- Deductive and inductive reasoning -- Differentiation -- Equivalence -- Errors -- Explanation -- Gender and mathematics -- Generalization -- Giftedness in mathematics -- Home as a context for numeracy -- Informal calculation method -- Investigation (enquiry) -- Language difficulties in mathematics -- Low attainment -- Making connections -- Match and mismatch -- Meaningful context -- Meaningful learning -- Mental calculation -- Modelling process (representing) -- Numeracy -- Play as a context for learning mathematics -- Principle learning -- Problem solving -- Purposeful activity -- Questioning -- Rote learning -- Skill learning -- Talk -- Transformation -- Transitivity -- Using and applying mathematics. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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| Added Author |
Thangata, Fiona.
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| Added Title |
Teaching primary mathematics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Haylock, Derek. Key concepts in teaching primary mathematics. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007 1412934095 9781412934091 (OCoLC)81453349 |
| ISBN |
9781780343334 online |
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