Transforming Primary QTS
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Children's Errors in Mathematics
by Alice Hansen, Doreen Drews, John Dudgeon, Fiona Lawton, and Liz Surtees
Published 23 June 2014
This practical and popular guide to children's common errors and misconceptions in primary mathematics is an essential tool for teachers and trainees. It supports them in planning for and tackling potential errors and enhances their understanding of the difficulties encountered in mathematical development. This fourth edition explores how a...Read more
This practical and popular guide to children's common errors and misconceptions in primary mathematics is an essential tool for teachers and trainees. It supports them in planning for and tackling potential errors and enhances their understanding of the difficulties encountered in mathematical development. This fourth edition explores how a Growth Mindset approach works alongside an awareness of children's errors and how mistakes themselves are powerful learning tools. This edition includes 50 new identifiable misconceptions children have of mathematics. The text also considers the role of the teacher in understanding and addressing children's common mathematical misconceptions.
Key features:
Key features:
- Linked to the new National Curriculum and covers every objective
- Provides an essential tool for planning primary mathematics lessons
- Explores how common misconceptions can be anticipated and addressed
Primary Mathematics Across the Curriculum
by Diane Vaukins, Alice Earnshaw, and Alice Hansen
Published 21 June 2011
This book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS in how to teach primary mathematics across all areas of the curriculum. Focused on teaching a more integrated and inclusive curriculum, the text draws out meaningful cross curricular links and embraces the latest thinking and current good practice. It begins...Read more
This book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS in how to teach primary mathematics across all areas of the curriculum. Focused on teaching a more integrated and inclusive curriculum, the text draws out meaningful cross curricular links and embraces the latest thinking and current good practice. It begins with a section on teaching mathematics, covering the strands of the curriculum, and goes on to offer guidance on the use and application of mathematics more generally across subjects. The effective use of data is examined, as is using mathematics to enhance learning, and case studies and activities are included throughout.