Synopses & Reviews
Compelling research on how to teach mathematics to young children
Teaching Mathematics 3–5 provides a research background for adults helping three- to five-year-olds learn mathematics, including social and emotional processes as well as key mathematical ideas and common difficulties. It includes implications for practice and proposes a playful and sensitive approach, and answers the questions:
About the Author
Sue Gifford currently works at Roehampton University, UK.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Between the secret garden and the hothouse: recent changes in early years mathematics
Section 1
What do we know about how young children learn mathematics? A holistic approach
1 Cognitive processes
2 Emotional processes
3 Social processes
4 Physical processes
Summary of Section 1
Section 2
Practical Pedagogy
5 Contexts for learning
6 Interactive teaching strategies
7 Teaching systems: planning and assessment
Section 3
The mathematics curriculum
8 Number
9 Shape and space
10 Measures
11 Problem solving
Conclusion
References
Index