Beschreibung:
This book aims to support trainee and established teachers to embed mathematical thinking into their lessons. The authors focus on practical and actionable ways that primary teachers can develop their children's mathematical thinking, reasoning and problem-solving: ideas which are at the heart of the UK National Curriculum.
Introduction 1. The national curriculum, 'mastery', depth and making sense of the problem at the heart of primary mathematics teaching 2. Reasoning with calculations 3. Reasoning in geometry and statistics 4. Problem-solving 5. Patterns and variation 6. Mathematical investigations, systematic thinking and finding all the possibilities 7. Planning for mathematical thinking; Conclusion