Teaching Number

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book lets teachers identify where their students are in terms of number skills and sets out a strategy for developing their knowledge. The authors show how to advance children's learning across five stages of early arithmetical learning - emergent perceptual figurative initial number and facile number. This provides for increasingly sophisticated number strategies across addition subtraction multiplication and division as well as developing children's number word and numeral knowledge and their ability to structure number and have grouping strategies. The approach used nine guiding principles for teaching.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Each chapter has clearly defined teaching procedures which show how to take the children onto the next more sophisticated stage. The teaching procedures are organized into key teaching topics and each includes:</span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a clearly defined purpose</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>detailed instructions activities learning tasks and reinforcing games</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>lists of responses which children may make</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>application in whole class small group and individualised settings</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a link to the Learning Framework in Number (see Early Numeracy- second edition 2005)</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>how the guiding principles for teaching can be used to allow teachers to evaluate and reflect upon their practice</span></li></ol><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Primary practitioners in Australia the United States the United Kingdom and Canada have tested the teaching procedures which can be used in conjunction with each country's numeracy strategy.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Primary teachers especially of the early years mathematics co-ordinators heads of school mathematics advisers special educationalists learning support personnel teacher assistants lecturers in initial teacher training and educational psychologists will all find this book invaluable.</span></p>