| Description |
xvi, 571 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Elementary Mathematics for 2000 and Beyond -- New Standards for a New Century -- Renewing School Mathematics for the 21st Century -- Leadership in Mathematics Education -- New Standards for 2000 -- Principles for Mathematics Education -- The Mathematics Curriculum Principle -- The Equity Principle -- The Teaching Principle and the Learning Principle -- The Assessment Principle -- The Technology Principle -- Meeting the Challenge of the Standards -- Mathematical Thinking Is Basic -- Brain-Wise Learning -- Built to Think -- Thinking to Learn and Learning to Think -- Thinking/Learning Skills -- Matching and Discriminating -- Sorting and Classifying -- Ordering and Seriation -- Sequencing -- Patterning -- Process Skills and Process Standards -- Mathematics as Problem Solving -- Problem-Solving Strategies -- Act It Out -- Build a Model -- Draw a Picture or Diagram -- Make a Table and/or Graph -- Write a Mathematical Sentence -- Look For and Use a Pattern -- Guess-and-Check, or Trial-and-Error -- Account for All Possibilities -- Solve a Simple Problem, or Break into Parts -- Work Backwards -- Change Your Point of View -- Combining Strategies -- Classroom Problems -- Reasoning in Mathematics -- Communication in Mathematics -- Mathematical Representation -- Connections -- Interdisciplinary Connections -- Real-World Connections -- Algebra Is Thinking -- Implementing the Thinking Curriculum -- Teaching and Learning Elementary Mathematics -- Foundations for Effective Instruction in Elementary Mathematics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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| Author |
Tipps, Steven.
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| LC no. |
87025231 |
| ISBN |
0534087302 |
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