Mathematics For Children: Challenging children to think mathematically (Custom Edition), 4th edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (February 2, 2017) © 2017

  • Janette Bobis University of Sydney
  • Joanne Mulligan Macquarie University
  • Tom Lowrie Charles Sturt University

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ISBN-13: 9781488618185
Mathematics For Children: Challenging children to think mathematically (Custom Edition)
Published 2017

Title overview

Developed for pre-service primary teachers and practicing teachers

This book is also a valuable reference for early childhood educators, researchers, numeracy consultants & learning support staff.

As in previous editions of Mathematics for Children, this edition aims to support teachers at all levels of mathematics education - from early childhood to tertiary education - to develop their knowledge and understanding of mathematics by encouraging them to reflect on children's learning and their own teaching of mathematics.

Mathematics for Children continues the successful constructivist approach to learning of previous editions. It focuses on children developing their own mathematical ideas through growth and understanding of mathematical concepts, while challenging children to think mathematically.

Each chapter has been updated to incorporate the most recent significant research, changes to curricula and to teaching practices - in this sense, Mathematics for Children is a valuable and rich source of information for both practitioners and researchers.

Table of contents

  • Part 1: Children learning mathematics
  • 1: Teaching mathematics for understanding: insights from research and practice
  • 2: Challenging children to think mathematically: concepts and processes
  • Part 2: The growth of mathematical concepts and processes
  • 3: Exploring algebraic thinking
  • 4: Developing statistical reasoning through data exploration
  • 5: Exploring chance and probability
  • 6: Finding connections in space and geometry: shape, location and transformation, and geometric reasoning
  • 7: Using measurement to make links
  • 8: Constructing early number concepts and relationships
  • 9: Promoting number sense: beyond computation
  • 10: Integrating fractions, decimals, ratio and proportional reasoning
  • Part 3: Facilitating mathematics learning
  • 11: Linking assessment and pedagogy
  • 12: Managing the learning environment

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