Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom a teacher's guide to initial lessons /
Gardella, Francis J.
Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom a teacher's guide to initial lessons / [electronic resource] : Francis J. Gardella - New York : Routledge, 2009 - 1 online resource (vii, 157 p.) : ill.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153) and index
How children learn mathematics (and why it doesn't happen!) -- Median : finding what's in the middle -- Rounding : the mystery of "rounding up for 5" -- Skipping multiplication (or at least through it) -- Learning to use division -- Fractions : what's it all about? -- Fractions : adding unlike things? Impossible! -- Fractions : dividing into small pieces? -- Decimals : operations before rules -- Measurement : make your own ruler -- Area : skipping through the rows -- Volume : it's like looking at an apartment house-- -- Mean : how much does each get? -- Percent : leveling the field of comparison -- Order of operations? : an agreement? Did you get the memo?
Mode of access: Internet
9780203891179 (electronic bk.) 0203891171 (electronic bk.)
Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Curriculum planning
Introducing difficult mathematics topics in the elementary classroom a teacher's guide to initial lessons / [electronic resource] : Francis J. Gardella - New York : Routledge, 2009 - 1 online resource (vii, 157 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153) and index
How children learn mathematics (and why it doesn't happen!) -- Median : finding what's in the middle -- Rounding : the mystery of "rounding up for 5" -- Skipping multiplication (or at least through it) -- Learning to use division -- Fractions : what's it all about? -- Fractions : adding unlike things? Impossible! -- Fractions : dividing into small pieces? -- Decimals : operations before rules -- Measurement : make your own ruler -- Area : skipping through the rows -- Volume : it's like looking at an apartment house-- -- Mean : how much does each get? -- Percent : leveling the field of comparison -- Order of operations? : an agreement? Did you get the memo?
Mode of access: Internet
9780203891179 (electronic bk.) 0203891171 (electronic bk.)
Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Curriculum planning