{"product_id":"userfriendly-math-for-parents-9781475834208","title":"UserFriendly Math for Parents","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUser-Friendly Numbers in Math for Parents shares stories of students' reasoning, thinking, and sometimes misunderstandings about numbers - stories that provide the opportunity to see math differently. Most of the students are visual-spatial, creative, daydreamers who may miss the details in math, a characteristic of visual-spatial learners. Through these stories, parents will see mathematics through their child's eyes, both the clarity and the confusion. Armed with this new sight, and therefore insight, parents will be able to talk differently with their child about the number language of math. By seeing numbers through new eyes, children and parents can take control of the math language and therefore, the mathematics.This book focuses more on the why reasons behind math number relationships, explained in plain English and with images that show number relationships. By including more images and fewer formulas, readers  especially the visual spatial learners  have a better chance of und\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the past 25 years, Cathy Draper and I have engaged in many fascinating conversations focused on teaching and learning math. Two things are clear to me. Cathy has a deep understanding of conceptual and practical math. Cathy, unlike many educators, knows that each human brain assimilates and processes in its own unique way. I have witnessed her analysis and diagnosis of each \"student\", and applauded as she found the unique prescriptive approach needed to help them understand and learn in their own way. She takes math from the linear left-brain to the visual, conceptual right brain and develops an approach that successfully integrates the two into a whole-brain approach. Sharing her lifetime of math experience with us is her gift to the world. -- Mary Ann Grassia, M.Ed, former board member, Math Science Collaborative Project, Salem State University; retired Salem public school teacher\u003cbr\u003eCatheryne Draper makes math homework less of a chore and more of a game.  She succeeds at this by saying use visuals and use the imagination.  The highlight for me was the chapter on Becca's Pattern Ancestors.  The two children in my life, at ages four and six, began using \"Silly Bands\" to form groupings and create patterns.  Years later, they both now understand sequences, and they are working on factoring and quadratic expressions.  Catheryne demonstrates through out her book that math can be learned by using visuals and a child's imagination and that there isn't just one method for teaching but to use the method that is most effective for your child.  -- Kathy Miles, Mutual fund compliance and product development, NY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Foreword Introduction  Part I: Definition  1. Getting a Grip on Number Sense Number Freedom  Flexibility Through Composition and Decomposition of Numbers How Counting Can Make or Break Number Sense  Ducks, Gauss, and George Keep in Mind  2. The Map of Number Symbol Territory The Shapes of Reading Numbers  Is Subitizing About Another Shape to Recognize? Alphabet of Letters and Alphabet of Digits Writing Numbers and Reading Symbolism  Keep in Mind  3. An Evolution of Number and Naming Rights Counting (Natural), and Whole Numbers  Integers and Other Positive and Negative Absurd Numbers  Rational Numbers Include Fractions and Other Number Comparisons  Politics of Rational and Unutterable Irrational Numbers  Infinity, Googol, and Other Very Large Ideas  Keep in Mind  Part II: Organization  4. Classify First Three Is Not Red  Classification as an Essential Skill  Different Classifications Lead to Increased Flexibility  Keep in Mind  5. Whence Came Place Value? Digits Continue to be the Alphabet for Numbers  Some Cautionary Tales About Learning Place Value  Classifying by Size for Place Value  Transitioning to Place Value Record-Keeping Charles’ Overlays  Decimals Continue the Same Organization, Just Smaller  Keep in Mind  6. The Number Line Brings Numbers to Order First, Last, and In Between – The Nature of Order Repetition of Pattern in Sequential Order  A Place for Everything  Keep in Mind Part III: Relationships and Patterns 7. Pattern Ancestors Repeating Patterns  Growing Patterns Ancestors of Figurate Numbers and Other Growing Patterns  Patterns Inside EquivalencesExpressing Ancestral Rules as Algebra Relationships  Keep in Mind  8. Balance of Relationships and Patterns Flexibility Within Balance Balance in Fraction Equivalences  Decimal Numbers Are Connections to the Other Side Finding Patterns With ViewfindersKeep in Mind  9. Number Personalities  Even and Odd Numbers Prime and Composite Numbers Positive and Negative Integers  Numbers Can Have Multiple Number Personalities Keep in Mind  Part IV: Connections 10. Place Value LegaciesExponents and Logarithms  Location Matters  Reciprocals: A Location and an Inverse  Who Moved My Decimal?  Keep in Mind  11. Ratio: The Comparison Effect  Predicaments Around Understanding Fraction as a Ratio Notation Ratio Pairs Can Make Proportions  Percentage: A Location and a Rate  Keep in Mind  12. More Order From the Number Line  Number Lines Are Everywhere  Coordinate Axes  More Coordinate Connections  Keep in Mind  Conclusion: What Parents Can Do Ask Questions Advocate for Number Sense  Find Your Math Voice Keep in Mind  Glossary References About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040237683031,"sku":"9781475834208","price":32.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475834208.jpg?v=1750946122","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/userfriendly-math-for-parents-9781475834208","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}