Teaching Number in the Classroom with 4-8 Year Olds (Math Recovery) - Softcover

Wright, Robert J; Stanger, Garry; Stafford, Ann K.; Martland, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446282694 ISBN 13: 9781446282694

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

This practical guide takes an inquiry-based approach to assess children′s knowledge and build on this to develop a firm foundation of understanding and confidence in mathematics.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Robert J. (Bob) Wright holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Queensland (Australia) and a doctoral degree in mathematics education from the University of Georgia. He is an adjunct professor in mathematics education at Southern Cross University in New South Wales. Bob is an internationally recognized leader in assessment and instruction relating to children’s early arithmetical knowledge and strategies, publishing four books, and many articles and papers in this field. His work over the last 20 years has included the development of the Mathematics Recovery Program which focuses on providing specialist training for teachers to advance the numeracy levels of young children assessed as low-attainers. In Australia and New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, the USA, Canada, Mexico and elsewhere, this program has been implemented widely and applied extensively to classroom teaching and to average and able learners as well as low-attainers. He has conducted several research projects funded by the Australian Research Council including the most recent project focusing on assessment and intervention in the early arithmetical learning of low-attaining 8–10-year-olds.

Review:

′The Classroom Instructional Framework in Early Number is research-based and provides a roadmap of not only the what, but the when and the how to teach all aspects of early number.

Understanding the learning trajectories in the Framework has transformed the way teachers are differentiating for the range of students′ early number knowledge in the classroom. Teachers are able to plan activities that are appropriate to where each student is, with the knowledge of where they need to go next. Learning is personalised, targeted, sequential, connected and develops strategies and understandings for success in solving number problems.′

Author: Vicki Nally

′Research informs practice in this easy to access resource. Each chapter gives educators  practical, bite-sized assessments, linked to a host of activities that helps them target teaching and develop the firm foundations which are so vital for confident and competent mathematicians.′

Author: Jill Piotrowski

′The new edition of Teaching Number in the Classroom with 4-8 year olds will provide much-needed support to teachers in laying vital foundations in number knowledge and understanding. The structured approach offers a wealth of rich and easily implemented classroom-based activities that work - thousands of teachers in Ireland attest to this!

 

 

Author: Noreen O′Loughlin

Teaching Number in the Classroom connects research with practice, containing assessment tasks and learning trajectories to guide the educator. The dimensions of Progressive Mathematization and Guiding Principles deliberately engender greater mathematical sophistication for the child and increase the practitioner’s effectiveness. Author: Carolyn Olijnek

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1446282694
• ISBN 13: 9781446282694
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256