Children's Mathematics: Making Marks, Making Meaning
- ISBN-10
- 1412922836
- ISBN-13
- 9781412922838
- Series
- Children's Mathematics
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-08-30
- Publisher
- Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
- Authors
- Elizabeth Carruthers, Maulfry Worthington
Description
Offering practical guidance to teachers and novice teachers the authors explore a number of ways of helping children make sense of mathematics and suggest alternatives to the excessive use of worksheets.
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- 2014-10-27
- 256 pages
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- 2000-04
- 80 pages
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