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    Introduction
  1. What Are Our Low Achievers?
    Characteristics / Factors Related to Low Achievement / Labels
  2. Important Considerations in Teaching Mathematics
    Four Fundamental Considerations / Constructivism / Purposeful Activities in Meaningful Contexts / Key Teaching Points
  3. Why Mathematics Is So Hard To Learn
    Characteristics of School
    Mathematics and the Way It Is Taught / Key Teaching Points
  4. Place Value
    Important Elements of the Place Value System /Key Considerations in Teaching Place Value/ Specific Learning Targets for low Achievers / Suggested Activities / Key Teaching Points
  5. Measurement
    An Overview / Developing Understanding and Skills with Measurement / Learning Targets for: Length and Distance, Weight. Capacity and Liquid Volume, Time, Temperature / Suggested Activities / Key Teaching Points
  6. Confidence with Numbers and Operations: A Vital Goal in Numeracy
    Fuzzy Regions / An Analysis of Operations / Teaching Addition and Subtraction Relationships / Teaching Multiplication and Division Relationships / Specific Targets for low Achievers / Suggested Activities / Key Teaching Points
  7. Common Fractions
    Important Characteristics of Fractions / Special Considerations in Teaching Fractions to low Achievers / Specific Learning Targets for Common Fractions / Suggested Activities / Key Teaching Points
  8. Money: A Sample Unit
    Introduction / Principles of Procedure / Targets / Activities / Materials for the Unit / Organizing the Unit / First Lesson Plan
    Further Reading / Index



Springboards for Teaching
HELPING LOW ACHIEVERS SUCCEED AT MATHEMATICS
Grades 2 — 8

Derek Haylock and Marcel D’Eon

Turn here for a great overview of how to teach mathematics effectively including an incisive critique of the way math is presently taught in school. This guide offers practical ideas with a sound, easy-to-understand rationale. It covers the most essential skill sets in mathematics for children in the grade 2 to 6 range: place value, measurement, the four basic operations, and common fractions.

1999 Paperbound 168pp ISBN 1-55244-010-9 (2-6) Order #4001 $32.95

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