Creative mathematics: exploring children's understanding

✍ Scribed by William Higginson, Eileen Phillips, Rena Upitis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows how creative math can really work. Exploring the ways in which math skills can be learned through cross-curicular activities based on visual arts and music, the book presents math as a meaningful and exciting subject which holds no fear for children. The authors recognize that while math-phobia prevails, attitudes and approaches to teaching the subject need to be reviewed, and issues such as gender stereotyping need to be tackled at an early stage. These classroom-based stories include detailed examples of integrative mathematic projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 7
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
Tessellations......Page 37
Animation......Page 75
Paper jewels......Page 99
Kaleidoscopes and composition......Page 120
Children as mathematicians......Page 150
Notes......Page 174
References......Page 177
Index......Page 184