Helping Children Learn Mathematics

The Canadian edition of Helping Children Learn Mathematics is a research-based text that encompasses the mathematical and pedagogical content required by all Canadian mathematics educators. It makes essential connections to contemporary teaching practices, equipping educators and students with the confidence, skills, strategies, and activities that are essential for teaching elementary math classes. The book uses validated tasks and learning activities to assist students and bring content and pedagogy to life via practical and highly credible classroom-based examples.

1. School Mathematics in a Changing World 2. Helping Children Learn Mathematics with Understanding 3. Planning and Teaching 4. Assessment: Enhanced Learning and Teaching 5. Processes of Doing Mathematics 6. Helping Children with Problem Solving 7. Counting and Number Sense in Early Childhood and Primary Grades 8.  Extending Number Sense: Place Value 9. Operations: Meaning and Basic Facts 10. Computation Methods: Calculators, Mental Computation, and Estimation 11. Standard and Alternative Computational Algorithms 12. Fractions and Decimals: Meanings and Operations 13. Ratio, Proportion, and Percent: Meanings and Applications 14. Algebraic Thinking 15. Geometry 16. Measurement 17. Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability 18. Number Theory