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Mathematical Misconceptions: A Guide for Primary Teachers
Anne D(Ed) Cockburn
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Description for Mathematical Misconceptions: A Guide for Primary Teachers
Paperback. This book dispells the common misconceptions in maths and helps teachers inspire a succesful understanding and engagement of number learning Editor(s): Cockburn, Anne D.; Littler, Paul; Littler, Graham. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JNU; YQM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
How do children relate to numbers and mathematics? How can they be helped to understand and make sense of them? People are rarely ambivalent towards mathematics, having either a love or hate relationship with the subject, and our approach to it is influenced by a variety of factors. How we are taught mathematics as children plays a big role in our feelings towards it. Numbers play a large part in our lives, and it is therefore beneficial to inspire a positive attitude towards them at a young age.
With contributors comprised of teachers, teacher educators, mathematicians and psychologists, Mathematical Misconceptions brings together information about pupils′ work from four different countries, and looks at how children, from the ages of 3 - 11, think about numbers and use them. It explores the reasons for their successes, misunderstandings and misconceptions, while also broadening the reader′s own mathematical knowledge. Chapters explore:
- the seemingly paradoxical number zero
- the concept of equality
- children′s perceptions and misconceptions of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing
- the learning process
- the ways in which children acquire number concepts.
This unique book will transform the way in which primary school teachers think about mathematics. Fascinating reading for anyone working with children of this age, it will be of particular interest to teachers, trainee teachers and teaching assistants. It will show them how to engage children in the mysteries and delights of numbers.
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847874412
SKU
V9781847874412
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Ref
99-1
About Anne D(Ed) Cockburn
Anne D. Cockburn is a Professor Emeritus in Early Years Education at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She was educated in Edinburgh before reading Psychology at the University of St Andrews. Subsequently, she trained to be a primary teacher and taught in Scotland. In 1979, she became a Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster, working with Neville Bennett and Charles Desforges. Her PhD was completed in 1986 at the UEA. Following a period of working as a researcher, she took up her first lectureship at UEA in 1989. She became an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1994. Initially Anne′s teaching focused on pre-service teacher education (BA and PGCE), gradually extending to in-service courses (BPhil and MA) and research (PhD and EdD). Throughout, she continued with her own research, with many of the catalysts for her investigations stemming from the needs and interests of professional practitioners and those with whom they work. More recently, she also started working with MA counselling students. Anne has examined doctoral theses, undergraduate and postgraduate courses at universities across the United Kingdom, Australia and Norway. She was a member of the Economic and Social Research Council Board of Examiners for studentships (2002–2005).
Reviews for Mathematical Misconceptions: A Guide for Primary Teachers
′This book is a really interesting and useful volume...Each chapter has many questions, helpfully highlighted in boxes, so that the reader has the opportunity to pause and reflect. For me these questions turn this book from being good to excellent. Encouragingme to take the time to think about my own practice helps this book ask difficult but interesting questions. [It] is clearly aimed at primary teachers but I′m sure that secondary teachers would benefit hugely from this as well...I′m sure it will prompt useful and interesting discussions′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics ′As a secondary teacher of mathematics I′ve found this a remarkable insight into the student′s thinking - giving me clear background information to help me think about my classes and their misconceptions and how I could help the children develop their thinking′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics
H.P. Koirala
CHOICE magazine
′This book is a really interesting and useful volume...Each chapter has many questions, helpfully highlighted in boxes, so that the reader has the opportunity to pause and reflect. For me these questions turn this book from being good to excellent. Encouragingme to take the time to think about my own practice helps this book ask difficult but interesting questions. [It] is clearly aimed at primary teachers but I′m sure that secondary teachers would benefit hugely from this as well...I′m sure it will prompt useful and interesting discussions′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics ′As a secondary teacher of mathematics I′ve found this a remarkable insight into the student′s thinking - giving me clear background information to help me think about my classes and their misconceptions and how I could help the children develop their thinking′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics
H.P. Koirala
CHOICE magazine
′This book is a really interesting and useful volume...Each chapter has many questions, helpfully highlighted in boxes, so that the reader has the opportunity to pause and reflect. For me these questions turn this book from being good to excellent. Encouragingme to take the time to think about my own practice helps this book ask difficult but interesting questions. [It] is clearly aimed at primary teachers but I′m sure that secondary teachers would benefit hugely from this as well...I′m sure it will prompt useful and interesting discussions′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics ′As a secondary teacher of mathematics I′ve found this a remarkable insight into the student′s thinking - giving me clear background information to help me think about my classes and their misconceptions and how I could help the children develop their thinking′ - Association of Teachers of Mathematics