Teaching Number: Advancing Children's Skills and Strategies

Researchers describe approaches to teaching numeracy to children aged four to eight years old, as developed in the Mathematics Recovery Programme and the Count Me Too projects in Australia, Britain, and the US. They focus on teaching number skills, knowledge, and understanding within the number strand of a primary mathematics curriculum. Among the factors the suggest teachers take into account are what knowledge the child possesses, current misunderstandings and misconceptions, and what specific materials to use. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR