Product Description

This timely book will be particularly helpful to teachers, mathematics co-ordinators and numeracy consultants involved in the implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy. It includes studies of effective teachers of numeracy, ICT and numeracy, an evaluation of international primary textbooks, assessment, using and applying mathematics and family numeracy. Most chapters include practical suggestions for helping teachers develop aspects of their numeracy teaching skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #233523 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 209 pages

Review
"The authors have produced a valuable survey of developments in investigative work inthis book." - Education in Chemistry "a very useful book." - British Journal of Curriculum & Assessment "I found much to admire in this book, and I enjoyed reading it immensely." -Studies in Science Education

From the Publisher
Equals / Vol. 6 No. 2 Spring 2000
"A topical, thought-provoking book. Rich with relevant research and stimulating commentaries, it is likely to be one of the most influential books in the field of primary mathematics." - Equals

About the Author
Ian Thompson is senior lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Observations of his own young children struggling to make sense of number operations and calculations provided the stimulus for his research into children's idiosyncratic mental and written calculation strategies which he began in 1986. He has written a substantial number of articles on this topic for academic and professional journals, and recently edited the book Teaching and Learning Early Number (1997). He was a member of the Advisory Group for the National Numeracy Project and was also a member of the team responsible for the training of the project's Numeracy Consultants.