Textbook on numbers, arithmetic, and prealgebra for elementary school mathematics teachers.
This book is designed for a mathematics for elementary school teachers course where instructors choose to focus on and/or take an activities approach to learning.
These activities promote critical thinking and discussion and give students a depth of understanding and perspective on the concepts presented in the text.
Visual icons throughout the main text allow instructors to easily connect content to the hands-on activities in the corresponding Explorations Manual.
Whether you are a brand new teacher or a veteran, if you find teaching math to be quite the challenge, this is the guide you want by your side.
In this text, intended for the one- or two-semester course required of Education majors, Bassarear demonstrates that there are many paths to solving a problem, and sometimes problems have more than one solution.
The text is organized around the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics' Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The Standards dictate the basic sections of the text.
Throughout the text, students learn why the math works, rather than just the mechanics of how it works. In this new edition the contents have been updated and rearranged for a more natural organization.
This book reflects the author’s experience in teaching a mathematics content course for pre-service elementary teachers.
The anniversary edition of this bestselling volume includes the original studies that compare U.S and Chinese elementary school teachers’ mathematical understanding and offers a powerful framework for grasping the mathematical content ...