Teaching Calculation: Audit and Test

by Richard English

If you are a primary trainee, you need to develop a good knowledge of calculations. The effective teaching of primary mathematics remains a priority for the government, and trainees and teachers are required to have a sound knowledge of teaching strategies to meet the Teachers' Standards. This text helps you to be more aware of your knowledge of calculations, and the areas in which you need to know more. Throughout, self audits, guidance on next steps and clear links to classroom practice. Designed to help you build confidence in your knowledge of arithmetic, this text supports you to begin teaching.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 2012

About the author

Richard English is a historian from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast in 1963. His father, Donald English (1930–1998) was a prominent Methodist preacher. He studied as an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford, and subsequently at Keele University, where he was awarded a PhD in History. He was first employed by the Politics Department at Queen's University Belfast in 1990 and became a professor in 1999. He is currently teaching at the University of St Andrews.