Linking Cubes and the Learning of Mathematics: Making Algebraic Structure and Mathematical Thinking Accessible to Learners of All Ages - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1898611149 ISBN 13: 9781898611141

Publisher: Association of Teachers of Mathematics, 2003

Synopsis

A variety of activities with linking cubes. There will be few primary schools or mathematics departments without a stock of linking cubes. This book offers the activities you have always needed to exploit this simplest of all resources to its full. Whatever age you teach, you will find a variety of activities that will both enhance your teaching, your students’ learning and your own understanding of mathematics. This book aims to offer ideas that will allow linking cubes to be used regularly and meaningfully from upper primary through to undergraduate. In this way they become an everyday and accepted tool of the mathematics classroom which, therefore, helps prevent the claims made by many learners that they are the preserve of those younger or less talented than them. What does this book contribute to mathematical understanding? Much mathematics is about structure which is something that linking cubes can expose in ways that teaching based on, say, number patterns or algorithms is unlikely to achieve. Learners who understand, and have an aware of, structure will be snore successful learners of, and see more purpose in, mathematics than those who do not. An understanding and awareness of structure will make transparent many mathematical results which otherwise, despite being visibly algebraically sound, remain opaque in terms of insight and understanding. 104 pages, full colour throughout.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association of Teachers of Mathematics
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1898611149
• ISBN 13: 9781898611141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93
• Editor: Paul Andrews