Enhancing primary mathematics teaching / edited by Ian Thompson

Contents

Section 1: Subject content issues
Making space for geometry in primary mathematics
Deconstructing the National Numeracy Strategy's approach to calculation
The empty number line: a model in search of a learning trajectory?

Section 2: Pedagogical issues
When we were very young: the foundations for mathematics
Parlez-vous mathematics?
From lesson objectives to lesson agenda: flexibility in whole-class lesson structure
Word problems: Cinderellas or wicked witches?
The problem with problem solving

Section 3: Assessment issues
Using assessment to improve teaching and learning
Making sense of mathematics

Section 4: Intervention issues
Interventions in numeracy: individualized approaches
Nurturing mathematical promise

Section 5: Information and communication technology issues
Calculations for all?
Does ICT make mathematics teaching more effective?

Section 6: Research issues
Place value: the English disease?
Brain-based research on arithmetic: implications for learning and teaching
Has the National Numeracy Strategy raised standards?

Includes index