Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don'T - Softcover

Kenschaft, Patricia C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201772892 ISBN 13: 9780201772890

Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Accessible and authoritative, Math Power will help you inspire your children mathematically by giving them the tools they need for academic and real-word success.. }You may be shocked to learn that in America today, twenty-four states have no math requirements at all for prospective elementary school teachers. Until states require their teachers to learn more math, parents are their childrens primary hope. Dynamic mathematician Pat Kenschaft believes that although math phobia is rampant, it is also unnecessary. With this guide any child can overcome mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. Kenschaft shares with parents her strategies for understanding and teaching math concepts, explaining what math is and how it works. Her lively techniques for understanding maththrough games, questions, and conversations, as well as specific math activitiescan help preschoolers to ten-year-olds develop math ability. } *Preventing Math Anxiety *Making Math Fun *Nurturing Childhood Promise *Moving Beyond Rote Learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201772892
• ISBN 13: 9780201772890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320