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Primary and Middle Years Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
This text is targeted towards teaching primary and middle years mathematics units in the Bachelor of Education degree.Illustrates how children learn mathematics, and then shows pre-service teachers the most effective methods of teaching mathematics through hands-on, problem-based activities. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.
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September 22, 2020
This is a really good book for getting ideas (most well explained) for teaching every part of primary school maths. The main idea behind it is to teach for understanding not just knowing how to do it. It makes its case very well but also shows lots and lots of practical examples which is useful- most books seem to have room for one or the other. It's all connected to the Australian Curriculum which is interesting because I think the authors are not from Australia, and it works with the curriculum well (Paying attention to proficiency strands for example). More on cross curriculum and general capabilities would be ideal (but their focus is maths).
There's a "value free" dimension to some of the maths- is so long as it is reflected in the real world the authors don't seem to care that it is just celebrating capitalism or idolising rich celebrities. This is where the curriculum needs to be treated through the cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities as those are the values that schooling is supposed to teach (and maths should never just be instrumental). I object to the instrumentalism a bit even when it is benign but I take the point that this might be the way to make maths relevant and engaging for some students (what concerns me more is teachers who can't see the beauty in maths). They also appear to have had a proof-reader who does not like maths since numerous small errors have been left in (for some preservice teachers this would cause confusion).
Anyway small nits aside this is a very valuable book and certainly presents a coherent, engaging, success-building way to teach mathematics without leaving anyone behind.
There's a "value free" dimension to some of the maths- is so long as it is reflected in the real world the authors don't seem to care that it is just celebrating capitalism or idolising rich celebrities. This is where the curriculum needs to be treated through the cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities as those are the values that schooling is supposed to teach (and maths should never just be instrumental). I object to the instrumentalism a bit even when it is benign but I take the point that this might be the way to make maths relevant and engaging for some students (what concerns me more is teachers who can't see the beauty in maths). They also appear to have had a proof-reader who does not like maths since numerous small errors have been left in (for some preservice teachers this would cause confusion).
Anyway small nits aside this is a very valuable book and certainly presents a coherent, engaging, success-building way to teach mathematics without leaving anyone behind.
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