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Little Kids-Powerful Problem Solvers: Math Stories from a Kindergarten Classroom

Little Kids-Powerful Problem Solvers: Math Stories from a Kindergarten Classroom

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ISBN10: 0325004315
ISBN13: 9780325004310
Publisher: Heinemann Educ Books
Published: Feb 15 2002
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.36 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

Angela Andrews and Paul Trafton know from experience that kindergartners can do great math-especially if they are engaged and challenged from the start. This collection of stories from Angela's classroom highlights the problem-solving potential of very young students. Arranged by month of the school year, each of these ten stories is an inspiration for a classroom lesson. Together the stories provide a comprehensive picture of what can be accomplished with little kids: making sense of math is the focus of the teaching; respecting children's thinking makes it possible.

Several major themes recur throughout the stories:

  • the distinction between academic and intellectual goals-the intellectual dispositions in action in this classroom reveal how children can make sense of experience and observations, how they can estimate, predict, hypothesize, analyze, and apply mathematical concepts in practical and visible ways.
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