Author: Sgroi, Laura Shannon
Paperback; Bibliography
448 pages
Published: October 2000
Thomson Learning
ISBN: 0534508758

This book is written to help prospective teachers of preschool through grade 8 understand how children in these grades learn mathematics and how they themselves might teach mathematics. It is based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Principles and Standards 2000 and grounded in the belief that before one can become a confident and competent teacher of mathematics,one must first become a competent and confident learner of mathematics.This text has been written to help prospective teachers of preschool understand how children learn mathematics and how they themselves might teach it. It is based on the NCTM Principles and Standards 2000 and argues that one must become a confident learner of maths before teaching the subject.