Learning to Teach Number: A Handbook for Students and Teachers in the Primary SchoolThis is a handbook targeting ITT for primary mathematics which is organised into 21 independent modules covering number concepts and systems, the four number operations and pre-algebra. It aims to provide an overview of the key terms and issues in each curriculum area; case studies focus on the learning process and children's common misconceptions; suggestions for whole-class and group practical and discussion activities and an opportunity to audit their own subject understanding. |
Contents
Learning to teach early number | 5 |
Learning to teach number concepts and number systems an overview | 18 |
Learning to teach whole numbers | 23 |
Learning to teach place value | 37 |
Learning to teach decimals | 53 |
Learning to teach fractions | 71 |
Learning to teach percentages | 89 |
Learning to teach ratio and proportion | 105 |
Learning to teach multiplication | 195 |
Learning to teach division | 217 |
PART 3 | 236 |
Learning to teach prealgebra an overview | 238 |
Learning to teach pattern | 244 |
Learning to teach functions | 267 |
Learning to teach diagrammatic representations | 277 |
Learning to teach early algebra | 286 |
Learning to teach integers | 119 |
Learning to teach indices | 132 |
PART 2 | 142 |
Learning to teach addition | 154 |
Learning to teach subtraction | 176 |
Learning to teach equations | 297 |
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Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 316 |
Common terms and phrases
activity OBJECTIVE addition algebra algorithm answer approach arithmetic base 10 apparatus calculation child classroom colleagues concepts and issues contexts counting back cubes curriculum decimal number decimal places diagrams difficulty digits Discuss division divisor equal equations equivalent errors example experience Figure fractions function machine generalising graphs grid ideas important integers inverse involving knowledge larger numbers long division meaning mental methods missing number models Module multiplication facts multiplication tables national curricula National Numeracy Strategy natural numbers negative numbers notation number concepts number line number operations number rods number system number track odd numbers ordered pairs partitioning percentages place value pre-algebra pre-school primary children primary mathematics primary school quantity questions recurring decimals relationship repeated represent representation situations skills solving square number strategies subtraction symbols teachers textbooks triangle numbers understanding unit variable vulgar fraction white cubes whole numbers word problems writing written methods young children zero