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Young Mathematicians at Work. Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction

Young Mathematicians at Work. Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction

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Publisher's Synopsis

Young Mathematicians at Work focuses on young children between the ages of four and eight as they construct a deep understanding of number and the operations of addition and subtraction. Rather than offer unrelated activities, Fosnot and Dolk provide a concerted, unified description of development, with a focus on big ideas, progressive strategies, and emerging models. Drawing from the work of the Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal, they define mathematics as "mathematising"-the activity of structuring, modeling, and interpreting one's "lived world" mathematically. And they describe teachers who use rich problematic situations to promote inquiry, problem solving, and construction, and children who raise and pursue their own mathematical ideas.

Young Mathematicians at Work provides a new look at the teaching of computation. It moves beyond the current debate about algorithms to argue for deep number sense and the development of a repertoire of strategies based on landmark numbers and operations. Sample minilessons on the use of the open number line model are provided to show you how to support the development of efficient computation.

Book information

ISBN: 9780325003535
Publisher: Heinemann USA
Imprint: Heinemann
Pub date:
DEWEY: 372.7
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 193
Weight: 368g
Height: 186mm
Width: 232mm
Spine width: 13mm