Series:

Transforming Primary QTS

2 total works

Cover of Children's Errors in Mathematics
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:
  • 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

Cover of Primary Mathematics Across the Curriculum
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.