Description
Book SynopsisThis revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies, activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching, this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of the subject.
In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in a new way.
Key chapters of this book explore:
Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on a larger scale
Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and measures children see around them
Music and
Table of Contents
Series editor preface Introduction: What counts as creative mathematics? I hate maths! Positive feelings, creative dispositions and mathematics Motivating children: Problem finding and problem solving Developing understanding: Seeing, talking and thinking mathematically Real maths! The mathematical potential in children’s lives Once upon a time: Using story to learn and teach maths Giant maths: The joy of solving enormous problems Across the curriculum: Putting mathematics at the heart Mathematical patterns: Playing music, maths and art Building mathematical understanding: Constructing and deconstructing Mathematics outdoors: the world beyond the classroom In conclusion: Playful teaching List of mathematical activities
