Number

by Richard English

This title provides primary teachers with all of the information and background knowledge they need to effectively teach mathematics. The chapters * The Structure and Language of Number * Calculations * Fractions, Decimals and Ratios * Algebra

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2000

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.