Teaching Mathematics with Insight - Softcover

Cockburn, Anne D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750708034 ISBN 13: 9780750708036

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

The Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum says that student teachers should be trained to analyse pupil's errors in maths and act accordingly. This is the only book that supports teachers' analysis of mathematical errors and helps them predict potential problems and propose solutions for themselves. Written in an accessible style, Teaching Mathematics with Insight guides the primary and early years teacher, and the student teacher through a series of processes that will enable them to become more effective and enlightened teachers of early mathematics. The processes include: unravelling the complexities of a concept, for example subtraction, by considering its component parts and the knowledge required to acquire understanding; watching children work to observe common mistakes and analyse the underlying misconceptions; discussing the concepts with other adults.

About this title

About the Author

Jordynn Jack is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is author of Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II (2010), and has written for journals including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech and Rhetoric Review.

Review

'Cockburn has a sympathetic but direct style, neither stuffy nor patronising ... I liked the book for its refreshing style, its usefulness and the inherent interest of its subject matter.' - Times Educational Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0750708034
• ISBN 13: 9780750708036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136