Counting and Measuring : : An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School / / Eileen Churchill.
The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able t...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1961 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter One. About Caroline and Others
- Chapter Two. The Beginnings of Numbering
- Chapter Three. The Growth of Number Systems
- Chapter Four. The Beginnings of Understanding
- Chapter Five. The Origins of Symbolism
- Chapter Six. From the Concrete to the Abstract
- Chapter Seven. From Comparison to Measurement
- Chapter Eight. From Counting to Calculation
- Chapter Nine. An Exploration of Space
- Chapter Ten. The Role of the Teacher
- Bibliography
- Index