| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum studies in mathematics education |
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Continuum studies in mathematics education.
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| Contents |
About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Pattern in the Nursery; 2 Repeating Patterns in the Early Primary Years; 3 Primary School Children's Knowledge of Odd and Even Numbers; 4 Patterns in Processing and Learning Addition Facts; 5 Children's Strategies with Linear and Quadratic Sequences; 6 Teaching and Assessing Patterns in Number in the Primary Years; 7 Pattern and the Approach to Algebra; 8 Pictorial and Practical Contexts and the Perception of Pattern; 9 Children's Understanding of Graphic Relations; 10 Children's Perception of Pattern in Relation to Shape; 11 Pattern and Randomness |
| Summary |
This highly illustrated book draws together the wide variety of studies in the learning of mathematics undertaken by the Pattern in Mathematics Research Group at the University of Leeds. Their purpose has been ' ... to provide structure and support to ... studies of children's perception, conception and use of pattern in learning mathematics'. Set up in 1992, they have embraced work across the whole curriculum, and through all the years of compulsory schooling. As each chapter of this book relates to a different study that was undertaken, the reader can dip in and select relevant material. At th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Mathematics.
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Mathematics
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MATHEMATICS -- Study & Teaching.
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Mathematics
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Orton, Anthony.
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| LC no. |
2005274900 |
| ISBN |
184714456X |
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9781847144560 |
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1281294535 |
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9781281294531 |
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9786611294533 |
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6611294538 |
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