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Teaching mathematics creatively Pound, Linda and Lee, Trisha

By: Pound, Linda.
Contributor(s): Lee, Trisha.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: The Learning to teach in the primary school series. Publisher: London Routledge 2015Edition: Second Edition.Description: xiv;180p. 9.5x6.5.ISBN: 9781138800557.Subject(s): Mathematics - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Great BritainDDC classification: 372.7071 Summary: This new and updated edition of Teaching Mathematics Creatively offers a range of strategies to enable trainee and practising teachers to take an innovative, playful and creative approach to maths teaching. It promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to involve your students and develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment. Exploring fresh approaches, this text explains the role of play in bringing mathematics alive for children and teachers alike. It identifies the power of story-telling in supporting mathematical thinking, examines cross-curricular teaching, and allows you to plan for teaching creatively. Imaginative ideas, underpinned by the latest research and theory, include: Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale, Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them, Music and maths - the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths, Giant maths - how much food do you include on a giant shopping list?
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This new and updated edition of Teaching Mathematics Creatively offers a range of strategies to enable trainee and practising teachers to take an innovative, playful and creative approach to maths teaching. It promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to involve your students and develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment.
Exploring fresh approaches, this text explains the role of play in bringing mathematics alive for children and teachers alike. It identifies the power of story-telling in supporting mathematical thinking, examines cross-curricular teaching, and allows you to plan for teaching creatively. Imaginative ideas, underpinned by the latest research and theory, include:

Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale,
Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them,
Music and maths - the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths,
Giant maths - how much food do you include on a giant shopping list?

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