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Written for pre-service and in-service educators as well as parents of children in pre-school through grade 5, this book connects research in cognitive development and math education to offer an accessibly written and practical introduction to the science of elementary math learning.
List of contents
1. Setting the Stage: Attention, Mental Control, Memory, and Understanding Part I. Mathematical Headwaters 2. Sizing up 3. The prelude to counting Part II. Spatial Skills 4. Visual-spatial skills 5. Spatial skills, math, SES and sex Part III. The Tools of Numeracy 6. Number words and counting 7. Fingers 8. Arabic digits and base 10 notation 9. The number line and linear measurement Part IV. Arithmetic 10. Whole-number arithmetic 11. Rational numbers and operations 12. Written story problems Screening 13. Early math screening: spotting the red flags and skill gaps
About the author
Nancy Krasa is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University, USA. She is the author, with Sara Shunkwiler, of Number Sense and Number Nonsense: Understanding the Challenges of Learning Math.
Karen Tzanetopoulos is a speech and language therapist, math learning specialist, lecturer, and owner of Learning to Full Potential, LLC.
Colleen Maas is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education and Human Development at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and an affiliate member of the Development and Research in Early Math Education network.
Summary
Written for pre-service and in-service educators as well as parents of children in pre-school through grade 5, this book connects research in cognitive development and math education to offer an accessibly written and practical introduction to the science of elementary math learning.
