Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics / edited by Anthony Orton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orton, Anthony.

Series:

Continuum studies in mathematics education.

Continuum studies in mathematics education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This highly illustrated book draws together the wide variety of studies in the learning of mathematics undertaken by the Pattern in Mathematics Research Group at the University of Leeds. Their purpose has been '... to provide structure and support to ... studies of children's perception, conception and use of pattern in learning mathematics'. Set up in 1992, they have embraced work across the whole curriculum, and through all the years of compulsory schooling.As each chapter of this book relates to a different study that was undertaken, the reader can dip in and select relevant material. At th

Contents:

Contents; About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Pattern in the Nursery; 2 Repeating Patterns in the Early Primary Years; 3 Primary School Children's Knowledge of Odd and Even Numbers; 4 Patterns in Processing and Learning Addition Facts; 5 Children's Strategies with Linear and Quadratic Sequences; 6 Teaching and Assessing Patterns in Number in the Primary Years; 7 Pattern and the Approach to Algebra; 8 Pictorial and Practical Contexts and the Perception of Pattern; 9 Children's Understanding of Graphic Relations; 10 Children's Perception of Pattern in Relation to Shape; 11 Pattern and Randomness

12 Pattern and the Assessment of Mathematical Investigations13 Pattern and Proof; 14 Pattern in the Classroom; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index.

ISBN:

9786611294533

9781281294531

1281294535

9781847144560

184714456X

OCLC:

568434747