Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics is a full colour, core textbook for anyone training to teach Maths at primary level. A self-audit is provided at the outset to assess your prior knowledge and highlight areas for your personal development. The book will then help you to develop your mathematical understanding by encouraging you to think mathematically.
This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students to learn with a sense of purpose and thoughtful self-regulation.
six-level course with a higher vocabulary load and more reading than most primary courses. Top authors Sarah Phillips and Mary Slattery have brought their understanding of how children learn to this incredibly well thought through course. Your pupils will definitely learn more! For schools with 4 hours of teaching per week, or with 3 hours per week looking for a more demanding course. Key features Introduces more vocabulary, more reading and more lessons than most primary courses.
