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RightStart Mathematics Level A Lessons
RightStart Mathematics is a comprehensive math program for children that is easy to teach and provides the foundation for everyday life, for advanced math, and for science in our technological world. The lessons tell you what to teach, and how, and why, day by day, year by year. This program uses visualization of quantities, de-emphasizing counting, and provides visual strategies (mental pictures) for memorizing the facts.
Understanding is emphasized. Math needs to be taught so 95 percent is understood and only 5 percent is memorized. When children don't understand, they memorize until the burden becomes too great and then they give up. When children understand they need less time in review and practice.
Understanding is emphasized. Math needs to be taught so 95 percent is understood and only 5 percent is memorized. When children don't understand, they memorize until the burden becomes too great and then they give up. When children understand they need less time in review and practice.
293 pages, Spiral-bound
First published June 1, 2013
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About the author
Joan A. Cotter
29 books2 followersJoan started a Montessori school and taught children, ages 3-6 years, as a Montessori teacher. She studied the Suzuki method and used it to teach violin and piano to young children. She also tutored children with learning problems and taught junior high mathematics.
Dr. Cotter founded Activities for Learning, designed the double-sided AL Abacus and wrote RightStart Mathematics, a comprehensive K-4 mathematics program that incorporates visualization, the AL Abacus, and math card games. The RightStart curriculum is an outgrowth of her doctoral research. Currently, she is writing middle school math curriculum, conducting workshops, and presenting at conferences nationally and internationally.
Dr. Joan A. Cotter received her BSEE (electrical engineering) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MACI (curriculum and instruction) from College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (mathematics education).
Joan worked as an engineer at Univac (now Unisys), resigning when her children were born. She taught her three children at home before and after school and during summer vacations. To help them learn their basic arithmetic, she devised card games that became the basis of her first book, Math Card Games: 300 Games for Learning and Enjoying Math.
Joan and her husband, Al, have three adult children and four grandchildren.
Dr. Cotter founded Activities for Learning, designed the double-sided AL Abacus and wrote RightStart Mathematics, a comprehensive K-4 mathematics program that incorporates visualization, the AL Abacus, and math card games. The RightStart curriculum is an outgrowth of her doctoral research. Currently, she is writing middle school math curriculum, conducting workshops, and presenting at conferences nationally and internationally.
Dr. Joan A. Cotter received her BSEE (electrical engineering) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MACI (curriculum and instruction) from College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (mathematics education).
Joan worked as an engineer at Univac (now Unisys), resigning when her children were born. She taught her three children at home before and after school and during summer vacations. To help them learn their basic arithmetic, she devised card games that became the basis of her first book, Math Card Games: 300 Games for Learning and Enjoying Math.
Joan and her husband, Al, have three adult children and four grandchildren.
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