Mathematics for Elementary Teachers

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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers

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Michelle Manes - Author

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This book will help you to understand elementary mathematics more deeply/ gain facility with creating and using mathematical notation/ develop a habit of looking for reasons and creating mathematical explanations/ and become more comfortable exploring unfamiliar mathematical situations.The primary goal of this book is to help you learn to think like a mathematician in some very specific ways. You will:• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. You will develop and demonstrate this skill by working on difficult problems/ making incremental progress/ and revising solutions to problems as you learn more.• Reason abstractly and quantitatively. You will demonstrate this skill by learning to represent situations using mathematical notation (abstraction) as well as creating and testing examples (making situations more concrete).• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. You will be expected to create both written and verbal explanations for your solutions to problems. The most important questions in this class are “Why?” and “How do you know you're right?” Practice asking these questions of yourself/ of your professor/ and of your fellow students.Throughout the book/ you will learn how to learn mathematics on you own by reading/ working on problems/ and making sense of new ideas on your own and in collaboration with other students in the class.

Subject 1

Education

Subject 2

Education - Curriculum & Instruction

Publisher

University of Hawaii Manoa

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