Helping Children Learn Mathematics, Active Learning Edition with Field Experience Resources, 6th Edition

by Robert E. Reys (Univ. of Missouri); Mary M. Lindquist (Columbus State Univ.); Diana V. Lambdin (Indiana Univ.); Nancy L. Smith (Emporia State Univ.); Marilyn N. Suydam (The Ohio State Univ.)

• ISBN13: 9780471228141
• ISBN10: 0471228141
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Helping Children Learn Mathematics, Sixth Edition, is written for elementary school teachers to help children learn mathematics meaningfully. This revision reflects major changes in the elementary school mathematics curriculum, assessment, and professional development of teacher education consistent with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Standards 2000. The first part of the text provides a base for understanding the changing mathematics curriculum and how children learn in it. It offers guidelines for planning instruction with an emphasis on problem solving and assessment. The second part of the text discusses teaching strategies, techniques and learning activities related to specific mathematical topics. Emphasis is on using models and materials to understand concepts and skills.

Table of Contents

1. Changing Directions in Elementary School Mathematics.

2. Learning with Understanding.

3. Teaching: Your Role.

4. Assessment: Enhanced Learning and Teaching.

5. Five Mathematical Processes.

6. Beginning Number Sense: Counting Benchmarks.

7. Extending Number Sense: Place Value.

8. Operations: Meanings and Basic Facts.

9. Operation Sense: Mental Computation, Calculators, and Estimation.

10. Operations: Standard and Alternative Algorithms.

11. Fractions and Decimals: Meanings and Operations.

12. Proportion and Percent: Meanings and Applications.

13. Patterns, Functions and Algebra.

14. Geometry and Spatial Sense.

15. Measurement.

16. Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability