Full Description
The book will covers a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning and demonstrates how mathematics can be related to personal and social development, communication and thinking skills. Written with the non-specialist in mind and including plenty of practical examples, it will make useful reading for teachers in mainstream and special schools, and learning support assistants.
Early years practitioners and teachers in training may find the book useful for its descriptions of how children acquire their foundation of early mathematics and numeracy skills.
Contents
The Significance of Maths; Number Sense and Mathematics Concepts; The Tools and Processes of Early Development; The Sense of Maths; Learning to Count; Addition, Subtraction and other processes; The Very Special Mathematics Curriculum; Including Children with Special Needs
