Inspiring, empowering, and preparing preservice teachers for today's classroom, ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS IS ANYTHING BUT ELEMENTARY: CONTENT AND METHODS FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, International Edition is a comprehensive program that delivers both a content and a methods text. Serving as a professional development guide for both pre-service and in-service teachers, this text's integrated coverage helps dissolve the line between content and methodsuand consequently bolsters teachers' confidence in their delivery of math instruction.
A strong emphasis on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics five core standards provides key information common to most state curricula relative to NCTM standards for pre-K through sixth grade. In addition, text content is based on thorough elementary mathematical scope and sequences that have been shown to be an effective means for guiding the delivery of curriculum and instruction.
Chapter 1 Mathematical Literacy : Acquiring the Ideas While Doing Mathematics
Chapter 2 The Foundation of All Math Learning : Representations of Early Number Concepts
Chapter 3 Informing Our Decisions : Assessment and Single-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 4 Deepening Understanding through Communication and Numeration
Chapter 5 Learning with Understanding : Concepts and Procedures and Multiding Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 6 Instructional Models : Inquirty-Based Teaching with Single-Digit Multiplication and Division
Chapter 7 Lesson Design : Learning How to Create Inquiry Lessons Using Multiding Multiplication and Division
Chapter 8 Fluency through Meaningful Practice : Mathematical Routines and Algebraic Thinking
Chapter 9 Instructional Goals, Number Theory, and Integers
Chapter 10 High-and Low-Level Tasks and Fractional Number Sense
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