Enhancing Primary Mathmatics Teaching

This book explores the effect that the National Numeracy Strategy and its successor, the Primary Strategy, have had on the way in which mathematics is taught in primary schools.

Prominent contributors examine the Strategies' recommendations from the perspective of their own research areas or interests, and discuss the issues involved, including: ideas for extending current practice; suggestions of important aspects of mathematics teaching that are being given little or no emphasis; alternative approaches that could be integrated into current practice; and, aspects of current practice that need to take account of recent research findings or emerging issues.Each chapter discusses implications for teaching and learning primary mathematics. The book will be particularly useful for trainees, practising teachers, mathematics coordinators and numeracy consultants. The contributors include: Mundher Adhami, Mike Askew, Carol Aubrey, Margaret Brown, Ann Dowker, Rosemary Hafeez, Steve Higgins, Keith Jones, Lesley Jones, Valsa Koshy, Alison Millett, Claire Mooney, Laurie Rousham, Malcolm Swan, Ian Thompson, and Helen J Williams.

Section one: Subject content issues
1.Making space for geometry in primary mathematics
Keith Jones and Clare Mooney
2.Deconstructing the National Numeracy Strategy's approach to calculation
Ian Thompson
3.The Empty Number Line: a model in search of a learning trajectory?
Laurie Rousham
Section 2: Pedagogical issues
4.'When we were very young': The foundations for mathematics
Carol Aubrey
5.Parlez-vous Mathematics?
Steve Higgins
6.From lesson objectives to lesson agenda: flexibility in whole-class lesson structure
Mundher Adhami
7.Word problems: Cinderellas or wicked witches?
Mike Askew
8.The problem with problem-solving
Lesley Jones
Section 3: Assessment issues
9.Using assessment to improve teaching and learning
Rosemary Hafeez
10.Making sense of mathematics
Malcolm Swan
Section 4: Intervention Issues
11.Interventions in numeracy: individualized approaches
Ann Dowker
12.Nurturing mathematical promise
Valsa Koshy
Section 5: Information and communication technology issues
13.Calculators for all?
Helen J Williams and Ian Thompson
14.Does ICT make mathematics teaching more effective?
Steve Higgins
Section 6: Research issues
15.Place value: the English disease?
Ian Thompson
16.Brain-based research on arithmetic: implications for learning and teaching
Ann Dowker
Has the National Numeracy Strategy raised standards?
Margaret Brown and Alison Millett
Index