Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers
By Tom Bassarear, Meg Moss
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MATHEMATICS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, 7th Edition, offers an engaging, hands-on, exploratory experience to help future elementary school teachers develop conceptual and deep understanding of the math concepts they will be teaching, as well as to nurture their positive beliefs and attitudes about math. Intended for the one-, two-, three- or four-semester mathematics course required of Elementary Education majors, the 7th edition demonstrates that there are many paths to solving a problem, and sometimes problems have more than one solution. Authors Bassarear and Moss present real-world problems in a way that requires active learning in a method similar to how archaeologists work in the field: they carefully uncover the concepts, slowly revealing more and more of the structure. An emphasis on explorations and investigations helps students make sense of the concepts, which are developed through a concrete/contextual and pictorial approach to understand the more abstract concepts. Students learn both the necessary mathematics and how to teach to young children. Available with WebAssign, a flexible and fully customizable online instructional solution that enables instructors to instantly assess student and class performance, and helps students master the course concepts.
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MATHEMATICS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, 7th Edition, offers an engaging, hands-on, exploratory experience to help future elementary school teachers develop conceptual and deep understanding of the math concepts they will be teaching, as well as to nurture their positive beliefs and attitudes about math. Intended for the one-, two-, three- or four-semester mathematics course required of Elementary Education majors, the 7th edition demonstrates that there are many paths to solving a problem, and sometimes problems have more than one solution. Authors Bassarear and Moss present real-world problems in a way that requires active learning in a method similar to how archaeologists work in the field: they carefully uncover the concepts, slowly revealing more and more of the structure. An emphasis on explorations and investigations helps students make sense of the concepts, which are developed through a concrete/contextual and pictorial approach to understand the more abstract concepts. Students learn both the necessary mathematics and how to teach to young children. Available with WebAssign, a flexible and fully customizable online instructional solution that enables instructors to instantly assess student and class performance, and helps students master the course concepts.
An emphasis on "owning" knowledge versus "renting" is promoted by a constructionist approach to learning, where connections are reinforced, and problems are authentic so that students retain what they have learned. By participating in investigations, the students are doing the mathematics themselves.
Investigations serve as the primary means of instruction and are uniquely designed to promote active thinking, reasoning, and construction of knowledge. Many investigations are followed by multiple solving strategies, allowing students to analyze numerous approaches to solving problems. Likewise, questions appear throughout the text, to prompt students to reflect or complete a short exercise before continuing.
Throughout the text, Classroom Connections are highlighted to provide observations, tips, and notes about elementary and middle school classrooms. Students can see children's thinking through examples of children's work and actual lessons from elementary-age and middle-school class assignments and practice exercises.
The book teaches students to add, subtract, and multiply in base 5, so that they better understand our number system, but more importantly understand the difficulties that young children have learning those operations.
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