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- English
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Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics
About this book
Written by an experienced teacher and teacher educator with widespread experience of teaching mathematics in the UK and internationally, the bestselling Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics combines pedagogy and subject knowledge to build confidence and equip you with all the skills and know-how you need to successfully teach mathematics to children of any age.
This fifth edition has been completely updated to include the latest developments in learning and teaching mathematics, including mastery approaches, a Singapore approach and the use of manipulatives in the primary classroom. There are new activities for you to use in your teaching and links to the dedicated website, which contains materials to develop a personal portfolio, more activities to use in your classroom and presentations and podcasts to support your further professional development to reflect the latest research developments. It covers all areas of the mathematics curriculum and will allow you to become a confident teacher of mathematics through developing your own subject knowledge.
Tony draws on his many years of experience teaching mathematics and working with early career teachers to share classroom activities which will support you in learning mathematics through engaging in mathematical activity with your learners.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Teaching and learning primary mathematics
- Chapter 2 What should I know? What do I know?
- Chapter 3 Recent developments in mathematics teaching
- Chapter 4 Problem-solving using mathematics
- Chapter 5 Counting: Place value; fractions, decimals and percentages
- Chapter 6 Knowing and using number facts
- Chapter 7 Calculation: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Chapter 8 Algebra
- Chapter 9 Geometry: Properties of shapes; position and direction
- Chapter 10 Measurement
- Chapter 11 Statistics and handling data
- Chapter 12 Teaching and learning mathematics in the early years
- Chapter 13 Issues of inclusion
- Chapter 14 Learning and teaching mathematics in a digital age
- Glossary
- Index