Synopses & Reviews
This book provides both a philosophical rationale and the practical means to integrate language instruction and mathematics.
About the Author
RICHARD D. MCCALLUM, a former English teacher and reading specialist, is a Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of the University of Florida and of the University of California at Berkeley, he has published widely on reading methods and materials, and is a frequent speaker on a variety of reading issues at national and international conferences.ROBERT WHITLOW has been the teacher/director of the Charquin Program in Hayward, California, public schools for 16 years, a program devoted to developing and fostering integrated cross-age curriculum, team teaching and daily parental involvement. He has been a member of the Bay Area Writing Project, the Bay Area Math Project, and the California Business Roundtable on restructuring California's educational system.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Purpose of This Text
Identifying Patterns: The Key to Mathematics
Basic Instructional Methods in whole Math Instruction
Whole Math activities for Primary and Elementary Classrooms
Bibliography
Matrix Showing Maths Focus by Strand
Logic
Geometry
Measurement
Number
Probability and Statistics