Mathematical Misconceptions: A Guide for Primary Teachers

✍ Scribed by Dr Anne Cockburn, Mr Paul Littler

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As a secondary teacher of mathematics I've found this a remarkable insight into the student's thinking - giving me clear background information to help me think about my classes and their misconceptions and how I could help the children develop their thinking' - Association of Teachers of Mathematics. How do children relate to numbers and mathematics? How can they be helped to understand and make sense of them? People are rarely ambivalent towards mathematics, having either a love or hate relationship with the subject, and our approach to it is influenced by a variety of factors. How we are ta. Read more...

Content: Zero: understanding an apparently paradoxical number / Anne D. Cockburn and Paul Parslow-Williams --
Equality: getting the right balance / Paul Parslow-Williams and Anne D. Cockburn --
Beginning to unravel misconceptions / Sara Hershkovitz, Dina Tirosh and Pessia Tsamir --
Insights into children's intuitions of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division / Dina Tirosh, Pessia Tsamir and Sara Hershkovitz --
Right or wrong? Exploring misconceptions in division / Pessia Tsamir, Sarah Hershkovitz and Dina Tirosh --
Developing an understanding of children's acquisition of number concepts / Anne D. Cockburn --
Highlighting the learning processes / Graham Littler and Darina Jirotková --
Everyday numbers under a mathematical magnifying glass / Carlo Marchini and Paola Vighi.
Abstract:

This book dispells the common misconceptions in maths and helps teachers inspire a succesful understanding and engagement of number learning Read more...