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Title New directions for elementary school mathematics / Paul R. Trafton, 1989 yearbook editor
Published Reston, Va. : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989

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Description viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Yearbook / National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 0077-4103 ; 1989
Yearbook (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) ; 1989
Contents It's time to change -- Communication and reasoning: critical dimensions of sense making in mathematics -- Developing understanding in mathematics via problem solving -- Role of computation in the changing mathematics curiculum -- Assessing and building thinking strategies: necessary bases for instruction -- Thinking strategies: teaching arithmetic through problem solving -- Language experiences: a base for problem solving -- Using "part-whole" language to help children represent and solve word problems -- Making sense of numbers -- Teaching for understanding: a focus on multiplication -- collecting and analyzing real data in the elementary school classroom -- Developing measurement sense -- Teaching about fractions: what, when, and how? -- Calculator as a tool for instruction and learning -- Making mathematics come alive through a statistics project -- The power of mathematical investigations -- Hidden mathematics lessons -- Connections between psychological learning theories and the elementary mathematics curriculum -- Mathematics teaching and learning: meeting the needs of special learners -- Staff development: directions and realities -- Cooperative learning in mathematics education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Author Trafton, Paul R.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
LC no. 91106394
ISBN 0873532724