Teaching of Mathematics for the Primary School Child

Teaching of Mathematics for the Primary School Child

1 Learning Mathematics

  1. Mathematics in Everyday Lives
  2. How Mathematical Ideas Grow
  3. The Nature of Mathematics
  4. Thinking Mathematically

2 Helping Children Learn Mathematics

  1. Know Your Learner
  2. How to Scaffold Learning
  3. What are the Ways to Aid Learning?

3 Classroom Practices

  1. Mathematics Learning: A Short Review
  2. Plan for Teaching
  3. Planning at Different Levels
  4. Assessment for Learning
  5. Evaluation of Achievement

4 Learning to Count

  1. What it Means To Count
  2. Developing Pre-number Concepts
  3. Classification
  4. Seriation
  5. One-to-one Correspondence
  6. Introducing Counting

5 Ones, Tens and More

  1. Developing An Understanding
  2. Problems Related to Applying Operations
  3. What Is Place Value?

6 Addition and Subtraction

  1. Communicating the Meaning of Addition
  2. Developing an Understanding of Subtraction
  3. Relating Addition and Subtraction
  4. Problems with Applying Algorithms
  5. Developing Estimation Skills

7 Multiplication and Division

  1. The Prerequisites for Multiplication
  2. Developing an Understanding of Multiplication
  3. Constructing Tables Versus Rote Learning
  4. The Multiplication Algorithm
  5. What Division Means
  6. Algorithm for Division

8 Fractions as a Part of a Whole

  1. Is Half Really Half?
  2. Parts of a Whole; Whole of a Part
  3. Representation of a Part by a Fraction
  4. Comparing Fractions
  5. Mixed Fractions

9 Operations with Fractions

  1. Developing Understanding in Addition & Subtraction
  2. Developing Understanding in Multiplication & Division
  3. Errors in Operations with Fractions
  4. Mixed Fractions and Improper Fractions
  5. Fraction Operations with Real-Life Applications

10 Decimal Fractions

  1. Why Decimal Fractions are Difficult
  2. Place Value Representation of Decimal Fractions
  3. Addition and Subtraction
  4. Multiplication and Division
  5. Estimating Decimal Fractions

11 Working with Numbers

  1. A Close Look at Algorithms
  2. Fraction Related Algorithms
  3. Addition and Subtraction
  4. Multiplication and Division
  5. Estimation

12 Shapes

  1. Where are Shapes?
  2. How do We Relate to Shapes?
  3. Why do We Need Figures?
  4. Can Figures Represent All Objects?
  5. Are Some Figures Special?

13 How Big It Is?

  1. Intuitive Idea of Size and Dimension
  2. Measuring Length
  3. Measuring Area
  4. Measuring Volume
  5. Capacity Versus Volume

14 How Heavy It Is?

  1. Why do We Weigh Things?
  2. Weight as a Means of Comparison
  3. Idea of Balance
  4. Different Units of Weight
  5. Mathematics Involved in Calculation of Weight

15 Measuring Time

  1. Past, Present and Future
  2. Interval of Time
  3. Using a Watch
  4. Mathematics Involved in Dealing with Time