Adding It Up - Helping Children Learn Mathematics (Paperback)

Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years. The committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematical proficiency and describes how students develop this proficiency. With examples and illustrations, the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning: Research findings on what children know about numbers by the time they arrive in pre-K and the implications for mathematics instruction. Details on the processes by which students acquire mathematical proficiency with whole numbers, rational numbers, and integers, as well as beginning algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability and statistics. The committee discusses what is known from research about teaching for mathematics proficiency, focusing on the interactions between teachers and students around educational materials and how teachers develop proficiency in teaching mathematics. Table of Contents Front Matter EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 LOOKING AT MATHEMATICS AND LEARNING 2 THE STATE OF SCHOOL MATHEMATICS IN THE UNITED STATES 3 NUMBER: WHAT IS THERE TO KNOW? 4 THE STRANDS OF MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY 5 THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE CHILDREN BRING TO SCHOOL 6 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY WITH WHOLE NUMBERS 7 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY WITH OTHER NUMBERS 8 DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY BEYOND NUMBER 9 TEACHING FOR MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY 10 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS 11 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	National Research Council • Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education • Center for Education • Mathematics Learning Study Committee
Editors:	Bradford Findell • Jane Swafford • Jeremy Kilpatrick
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	460
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-21895-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Teacher training
LSN:	0-309-21895-0
Barcode:	9780309218955

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