"Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How culture promotes childrens mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world. Internationally renowned experts Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant examine research into childrens mathematical development to show why it is important to distinguish between quantities, relations and numbers. Using Mathematics to Understand the World presents a theory about the development of childrens quantitative reasoning and reveals why and how teaching about quantitative reasoning can be used to improve childrens mathematical attainment in school. It describes how learning about the analytical meaning of numbers is established as part of mathematics at school but quantitative reasoning is emphasized less even though it is increasingly acclaimed as essential for thinking mathematically and for using mathematics to understand the world. This essential text is for all students of mathematics education, developmental psychology and cognitive psychology. By including activities for parents and professionals to try themselves, it may help you to recognize your own quantitative reasoning"--

Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bryant, Peter

Nunes, Terezinha

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Using Mathematics to Understand the World

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes (Improving Learning)

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contradictory spelling and reading rules of English. As a result, their enjoyment of learning about words increases, and their literacy skills improve. Written by leading researchers for trainee teachers, practising teachers and interested parents, this highly accessible and innovative book provides sound, evidence-based advice and materials that can be used to help teach children about morphemes, and highlights the beneficial effects of this approach.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wrong solutions to the problems. Mathematics is also like this. People who learn to calculate, for example, because they are involved in commerce frequently have a more practical way of doing mathematics than the way we are taught at school. This book is about the differences between what we call practical knowledge of mathematics - that is street mathematics - and mathematics learned in school, which is not learned in practice. The authors look at the differences between these two ways of solving mathematical problems and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. They also discuss ways of trying to put theory and practice together in mathematics teaching.

Street Mathematics and School Mathematics (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Science & Math

Carraher, David William

Schliemann, Analucia Dias

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wrong solutions to the problems. Mathematics is also like this. People who learn to calculate, for example, because they are involved in commerce frequently have a more practical way of doing mathematics than the way we are taught at school. This book is about the differences between what we call practical knowledge of mathematics - that is street mathematics - and mathematics learned in school, which is not learned in practice. The authors look at the differences between these two ways of solving mathematical problems and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. They also discuss ways of trying to put theory and practice together in mathematics teaching.

Children Doing Mathematics provides a reliable and up to date review of the substantial recent work in children' mathematical understanding. The authors also present important new research on children's understanding of number, measurement, arithmetic operation and fractions both in and out of school. The central theme of Children Doing Mathematics is that there are crucial conditions for children's mathematical learning. Firstly, children have to come to grips with conventional mathematical systems. Secondly, but equally important, they have to be able to present mathematical knowledge in a way that solves problems. The book also discusses how mathematical activities and knowledge involve much more than what is currently viewed as mathematics in the school curriculum. Most recent work illustrates how children can be successful in mathematical activities outside school whereas they fail in similar activities in the classroom. Through these two underlying themes the authors bring together discussions on conventional mathematical learning and on real life mathematical success. In so doing, they also highlight new and better ways of analysing children's abilities and of advancing their learning in school.

Children Doing Mathematics (Understanding Children's Worlds)

Wiley/Blackwell

Children Doing Mathematics

This book extends models of early literacy, analyzing how children’s reading and spelling skills develop throughout their school career.    An account of how a child’s reading and spelling develop which goes beyond the early years  Shows that there are radical changes in the way children read and spell as they get older  Describes a new theory about the learning that goes on in the later stages of reading and spelling  Makes clear the educational implications of this theory  The authors’ research has previously contributed to the ‘literacy hour’ – a government initiative to improve the teaching of literacy skills in UK schools

Children's Reading and Spelling: Beyond the First Steps (Understanding Children's Worlds)

This book extends models of early literacy, analyzing how children’s reading and spelling skills develop throughout their school career. 
<ul> <li>An account of how a child’s reading and spelling develop which goes beyond the early years 
</li> <li>Shows that there are radical changes in the way children read and spell as they get older 
</li> <li>Describes a new theory about the learning that goes on in the later stages of reading and spelling 
</li> <li>Makes clear the educational implications of this theory 
</li> <li>The authors’ research has previously contributed to the ‘literacy hour’ – a government initiative to improve the teaching of literacy skills in UK schools</li> </ul>

Children's Reading and Spelling: Beyond the First Steps

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes

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Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics

Using Mathematics to Understand the World

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes (Improving Learning)

Street Mathematics and School Mathematics (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Street Mathematics and School Mathematics (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Children Doing Mathematics (Understanding Children's Worlds)

Children Doing Mathematics

Children's Reading and Spelling: Beyond the First Steps (Understanding Children's Worlds)

Children's Reading and Spelling: Beyond the First Steps

Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes