Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools

Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools, 2e presents an accessible guide to current British and Dutch research into numeracy teaching.

The new edition comprises fourteen new chapters, including a section devoted to post-Williams issues and four popular chapters that have been retained and updated in light of the vast changes in the field. The key topics include: using resources, ICT, AfL and problem solving approaches effectively; learning from errors and misconceptions; developing mental and written calculation; the 'gifted and talented'; transition from EYFS into Key Stage 1; and Intervention and the Every Child Counts programme. This popular book is essential reading for all trainee and practising primary school teachers, classroom assistants and mathematics specialist teachers. The contributors include: Mike Askew, Patrick Barmby, Meindert Beishuizen, Margaret Brown, Kev Delaney, Nick Dowrick, Sylvia Dunn, Richard English, Sue Gifford, Tony Harries, Steve Higgins, Jeremy Hodgen, Louise Matthews, Frank Monaghan, Mike Ollerton, Julie Ryan, Ian Thompson, John Threlfall, Julian Williams, and Jan Winter.

Part 1: Setting the context
Swings and roundabouts
Part 2: Post-Williams issues
It ain't just what you do: Effective teachers of numeracy
Teaching for understanding/Understanding for teaching
Thinking aloud means talking allowed: Group work in the primary school mathematics classroom
Making connections: Teachers and children using resources effectively
Using problem solving approaches to learn mathematics
The role of ICT
Shaking the Foundations: Does the Early Years Foundation Stage provide a secure basis for early mathematics?
Home-school knowledge exchange
Part 3: Assessment issues
Assessment for learning: What's all the fuss about?
Children's mathematical understanding as 'work-in-progress': Learning from errors and misconceptions
Part 4: Calculation issues
Getting your head around mental calculation
The empty number line
Written calculation: Addition and subtraction
Progression in the teaching of multiplication
Progression in the teaching of division
Part 5: Special needs issues
Numbers Count: Developing a national approach to early intervention
The 'gifted and talented'