Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools by Ian Thompson

Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools by Ian Thompson

This timely book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the teaching and learning of numeracy in primary schools. It will be particularly helpful to teachers, mathematics co-ordinators and numeracy consultants involved in the implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy. It presents an accessible guide to current British and Dutch research into numeracy teaching. Leading researchers describe their findings and discuss implications for practising teachers. The projects include studies of effective teachers of numeracy, ICT and numeracy, an evaluation of international primary textbooks, assessment, using and applying mathematics and family numeracy. The book also includes chapters on pedagogy, focusing on the teaching of mental calculation, the transition from mental to written algorithms, the place of the empty number line and the use of the calculator as a teaching aid. Most chapters include practical suggestions for helping teachers develop aspects of their numeracy teaching skills.

"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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780335203246
ISBN 10	0335203248
Title	Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools
Author	Ian Thompson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open University Press
Year published	1999-09-16
Number of pages	224
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