Children and Number Difficulties in Learning Mathematics

Name: Children and Number Difficulties in Learning Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780631135814

ISBN-10: 0631135812

ISBN-13: 9780631135814

Edition: 1986

Authors: Martin Hughes

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The importance of learning mathematics is constantly stressed by educationalists and employers alike. Yet survey after survey shows that large numbers of children leave school lacking both competence and interest in mathematics. What is going wrong and what should be done about it? In Children and Number Martin Hughes proposes a new perspective on children's early attempts to understand mathematics. He describes the surprisingly substantial knowledge about number which children acquire naturally before they start school, and contrasts this with the difficulties presented by the formal written symbolism of mathematics in the classroom. He argues that children need to build links between…

Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword


Margaret Donaldson


Introduction



What is the Problem?



Piaget under Attack



Addition and Subtraction before School



What's so Hard About Two and Two



Children's Invention of Written Arithmetic



The Written Number Systems of Other Cultures



Understanding the Written Symbolism of Arithmetic



Children's Difficulties in School



Learning through Number Games



Learning with LOGO



A New Approach to Number


References


Index