Counting and Measuring : An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School / Eileen Churchill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Churchill, Eileen, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Arithmetic.

Number concept.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able to translate a concrete numerical problem into the symbolic language of calculation. For a child taught along these lines, how much easier, for example, would be the transition from arithmetic to algebra!Miss Churchill is fully conversant with the works of Piaget, Cuisenaire, Cassirer and other leading thinkers in educational philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. She has synthesized their concepts with her own experience and research at Leeds University, and, though written within the contexts of British education, her book should also have a marked influence on the teaching of young children in North America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Figures

Foreword

Preface

Chapter One. About Caroline and Others

Chapter Two. The Beginnings of Numbering

Chapter Three. The Growth of Number Systems

Chapter Four. The Beginnings of Understanding

Chapter Five. The Origins of Symbolism

Chapter Six. From the Concrete to the Abstract

Chapter Seven. From Comparison to Measurement

Chapter Eight. From Counting to Calculation

Chapter Nine. An Exploration of Space

Chapter Ten. The Role of the Teacher

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017)

ISBN:

1-4426-5470-8

1-4426-5279-9

OCLC:

992541722