Teaching Mathematics Creatively (Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series)

This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject. 
In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way. 
Key chapters of this book explore: 
• Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale 
• Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them 
• Music and maths – the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths 
Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their classroom.

Science & Math

Pound, Linda

Lee, Trisha

Mathematics

Routledge

The Growth of a Storyteller: Helicopter Stories in Action

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Are you looking for new ideas to capture the reluctant maths pupils in your class? How can story, drama and GIANTS help you teach maths?  Teaching Mathematics Creatively is crammed full of practical approaches for bringing the teaching of mathematics to life. From an examination of where maths is failing to engage pupils in the 21st century, to a wide range of exciting approaches and ideas for ensuring it is possible to teach in a creative way, this is a stimulating and enjoyable source of inspiration for busy teachers.  It promotes creativity as a key element to develop young children’s knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of mathematics and offers a range of strategies to enable teachers to take a playful approach to mathematics teaching. Imaginative ideas include:    The power of story-telling and play to bring the subject alive for children and teachers alike.   Learning maths outdoors - work on a larger scale, make more noise, make more mess!   Making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them every day.   Motivating children through problem-finding and problem-solving.   Using music, rhythm and pattern to teach maths creatively.   Giant maths - how much food does a giant need in a week?   Underpinned by the latest research and theory and with contemporary and cutting-edge practice at the forefront, Teaching Mathematics Creatively includes a wealth of innovative ideas to enthuse teachers and enrich maths teaching. It is an essential purchase for every teacher who wishes to employ creative approaches to teaching in their classroom.

I Can't Remember: A Helicopter Stories Tale

It's Not Fair: A Helicopter Stories Tale

Dramatic Mathematics: 5 Stories to Support Early Maths Learning

Hill, Isla

Dramatic Mathematics

Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories

Stories and fantasy play engage all young children and help them to draw connections and make sense of the world. MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Stories are tried, tested and proven to have a significant impact on children’s literacy and communication skills, their confidence and social and emotional development. Based on the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley, this book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to using this approach with young children.   Covering all aspects of the approach, Artistic Director Trisha Lee shows you how you can introduce Helicopter Stories to children for the first time, scribing their tales and then bring their ideas to life by acting them out. Full of anecdotes and practical examples from a wide range of settings, the book includes:     Clear guidelines and rules for scribing children’s stories, creating a stage and acting out stories     How to deal with taboos and sensitive issues in children’s stories     How to involve children who are unwilling to speak or act     Supporting children with English as an Additional Language     Links to show how the approach supports children’s holistic development    Providing an accessible guide to an approach that is gaining international recognition, and featuring a foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley, this book will be essential reading for all those that want to support children’s learning in a way that is fun, engaging and proven to work.

Princesses, Dragons and Helicopter Stories: Storytelling and story acting in the early years

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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