- 202 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Teaching Mathematics Creatively
About this book
This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject.
In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way.
Key chapters of this book explore:
• Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale
• Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them
• Music and maths – the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths
Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their classroom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Series editor’s foreword
- 1 Introduction: What counts as creative mathematics?
- 2 I hate maths! Positive feelings, creative dispositions and mathematics
- 3 Motivating children: Problem finding and problem solving
- 4 Developing understanding: Seeing, talking and thinking mathematically
- 5 Real maths! The mathematical potential in children’s lives
- 6 Once upon a time: Using story to learn and teach maths
- 7 Giant maths: The joy of solving enormous problems
- 8 Across the curriculum: Putting mathematics at the heart
- 9 Mathematical patterns: Playing music, maths and art
- 10 Building mathematical understanding: Constructing and deconstructing
- 11 Mathematics outdoors: The world beyond the classroom
- 12 In conclusion: Playful teaching
- List of mathematical activities
- Bibliography
- Index
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