Teaching Mathematics Creatively

<p>This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject.</p><p>In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way.</p><p>Key chapters of this book explore:</p><p>• Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale</p><p>• Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them</p><p>• Music and maths – the role of rhythm in learning, and music and pattern in maths</p><p>Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their classroom.</p> <p>Series editor preface Introduction: What counts as creative mathematics? I hate maths! Positive feelings, creative dispositions and mathematics Motivating children: Problem finding and problem solving Developing understanding: Seeing, talking and thinking mathematically Real maths! The mathematical potential in children’s lives Once upon a time: Using story to learn and teach maths Giant maths: The joy of solving enormous problems Across the curriculum: Putting mathematics at the heart Mathematical patterns: Playing music, maths and art Building mathematical understanding: Constructing and deconstructing Mathematics outdoors: the world beyond the classroom In conclusion: Playful teaching List of mathematical activities</p>