Contained in this Guide is suggestions for implementing a Professional Development Program, a selected annotated bibliography, and a selection of resources such as sample workshop agendas and worksheets.
Three themes appear throughout the book: building meaning for fractions and decimals through discussing and solving word problems the progression of children's strategies for solving fraction word problems and equations from direct modeling ...
Children's books provide an authentic context for using mathematics. They celebrate mathematics as a language for describing and framing our world. And they are also a nonthreatening vehicle for investigating...
Children Doing Mathematics provides a reliable and up to date review of the substantial recent work in children' mathematical understanding.
This volume provides documentation of the proceedings of this important meeting - - the Early Childhood Action Group of the Sixth International Congress on Mathematics Education.
In S. Strauss & R. Stavy (Eds.), U-shaped Behavioral Growth (pp. 11–36). New York: Academic Press. 62. Cowan, R., & Sutcliffe, N. B. (1991). ... In L.Verschaffel, B. Greer, Wm. van Dooren, S. Mukhopadhyay (Eds.) Words and Worlds ...
By the time they begin school, most children have already developed a sophisticated, informal understanding of basic mathematical concepts and problem-solving strategies. Too often, however, the mathematics instruction that we...
" This easy-to-use resource includes fun activities, routines, and games inspired by children's books that challenge children to recognize and think more logically about the math all around them.
This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children.
In Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction, Thomas Carpenter, Megan Franke, and Linda Levi helped tens of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive problem-solving and computational processes. More important, the authors...
Teaching Young Children Mathematics provides a comprehensive overview of mathematics instruction in the early childhood classroom.