Fostering Children's Number Sense in Grades K-2: Turning Math Inside Out - Softcover

Nelson, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132981513 ISBN 13: 9780132981514

Publisher: Pearson, 2013

Synopsis

Fostering Children's Number Sense in Grades K-2 is a powerful, hands-on resource that helps in-service teachers, curriculum coaches, and math intervention specialists ensure children’s deep understanding of addition and subtraction in ways that enable long-term growth. Packed with child-centered instructional strategies, powerful and engaging learning materials, and revealing assessment tools, the book is clearly laid out and cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards.

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From the Back Cover:

                                    Fostering Children's Number Sense in Grades K-2: Turning Math Inside Out

Gregory Nelson

 

 

Fostering Children's Number Sense in Grades K-2 is a powerful, hands-on resource that helps in-service teachers, curriculum coaches, and math intervention specialists ensure children’s deep understanding of addition and subtraction in ways that enable long-term growth. Packed with child-centered instructional strategies, powerful and engaging learning materials, and revealing assessment tools, the book is clearly laid out and cross-referenced to the Common Core State Standards.

 

Based on his belief that children are mathematically curious by nature, author Greg Nelson presents a variety of tools classroom teachers can use to give students access to the deep structure of numbers, carefully scaffold their inquiry, and help them excel in math. The goal of this resource is to guide teachers as they feed children’s innate mathematical curiosity and scaffold their insights without taking ownership of the process away from them. To that end the author provides effective tools of instruction and assessment, with clear guidelines for teaching a different way.

 

 

“A clear understanding of the mathematics content intended by the {common core} standards.”

-Kathleen  M. Morris, Ph.D., Title I Professional Development Specialist, Elementary School, Manassas, VA

 

“As an elementary math coach I am excited to see this type of book coming out. The approaches are the types of ideas I try to model and encourage my teachers to use. This book is a great reflection of these strategies.”

-Fran Machuga, Elementary Math Coach, William Holmes McGuffey Elementary School, Youngstown, OH

 

Greg Nelson, Ph.D. has spent the last 35 years involved in early childhood education as a classroom teacher, center owner and director, intern trainer, workshop presenter, author, early childhood consultant, and university instructor. His interests include devising curriculum to support the emergence of early math and science literacy in children, and exploring the interface of developmentally appropriate practice and world-class educational standards.  Author of A Teacher’s Bag of Tricks and Math at Their Own Pace, he currently serves as professor of early childhood education at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts and is president of the Massachusetts Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.

About the Author:

Greg Nelson, Ph.D. has spent the last 35 years involved in early childhood education as a classroom teacher, center owner and director, intern trainer, workshop presenter, author, early childhood consultant, and university instructor. His interests include devising curriculum to support the emergence of early math and science literacy in children, and exploring the interface of developmentally appropriate practice and world-class educational standards.  Author of A Teacher’s Bag of Tricks and Math at Their Own Pace, he currently serves as professor of early childhood education at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts and is president of the Massachusetts Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0132981513
• ISBN 13: 9780132981514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176