Learning to Teach Number: A Handbook for Students and Teachers in the Primary School

by Forbisher, Len; Monaghan, John; Orton, Anthony; Orton, Jean; Roper, Tom; Threlfall, John

• ISBN13: 9780748735150
• ISBN10: 0748735151
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Summary

An overview of the key terms and issues in each curriculum area case studies focusing on the learning process and children's common misconceptions regular opportunities to review progress through practical and discussion activities suggested whole-class and group activities building on each module opportunities to audit their own subject understanding

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	iv
About the book	v
Introduction	viii
Learning to teach early number	1	(17)
Sally Threlfall
PART 1
Learning to teach number concepts and number systems: an overview	18	(5)
Learning to teach whole numbers	23	(14)
Learning to teach place value	37	(16)
Learning to teach decimals	53	(18)
Learning to teach fractions	71	(18)
Learning to teach percentages	89	(16)
Learning to teach ratio and proportion	105	(14)
Learning to teach integers	119	(13)
Learning to teach indices	132	(10)
PART 2
Learning to teach number operations: an overview	142	(12)
Learning to teach addition	154	(22)
Learning to teach subtraction	176	(19)
Learning to teach multiplication	195	(22)
Learning to teach division	217	(21)
PART 3
Learning to teach pre-algebra: an overview	238	(6)
Learning to teach pattern	244	(23)
Learning to teach functions	267	(10)
Learning to teach diagrammatic representations	277	(9)
Learning to teach early algebra	286	(11)
Learning to teach equations	297	(11)
Useful books on teaching mathematics in the primary school	308	(3)
Bibliography	311	(5)
Index	316