9780309218955: Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
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ISBN 10: 0309218950 ISBN 13: 9780309218955
Publisher: National Academies Press, 2001

Synopsis

Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years.

The committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematical proficiency and describes how students develop this proficiency. With examples and illustrations, the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning:

  • Research findings on what children know about numbers by the time they arrive in pre-K and the implications for mathematics instruction.
  • Details on the processes by which students acquire mathematical proficiency with whole numbers, rational numbers, and integers, as well as beginning algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability and statistics.

The committee discusses what is known from research about teaching for mathematics proficiency, focusing on the interactions between teachers and students around educational materials and how teachers develop proficiency in teaching mathematics.

Table of Contents
  • Front Matter
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • 1 LOOKING AT MATHEMATICS AND LEARNING
  • 2 THE STATE OF SCHOOL MATHEMATICS IN THE UNITED STATES
  • 3 NUMBER: WHAT IS THERE TO KNOW?
  • 4 THE STRANDS OF MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY
  • 5 THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE CHILDREN BRING TO SCHOOL
  • 6 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY WITH WHOLE NUMBERS
  • 7 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY WITH OTHER NUMBERS
  • 8 DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY BEYOND NUMBER
  • 9 TEACHING FOR MATHEMATICAL PROFICIENCY
  • 10 DEVELOPING PROFICIENCY IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS
  • 11 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

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About the Author

Jeremy Kilpatrick, Jane Swafford, Bradford Findell, Editors; Mathematics Learning Study Committee, National Research Council

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Publisher
National Academies Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0309218950
ISBN 13 
9780309218955
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
460
Editor
Findell Bradford, Swafford Jane, Kilpatrick Jeremy

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