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Otto, Albert; Caldwell, Janet; Hancock, Sarah Wallus; Zbiek, Rose Mary – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2011
This book identifies and examines two big ideas and related essential understandings for teaching multiplication and division in grades 3-5. Big Idea 1 captures the notion that multiplication is usefully defined as a scalar operation. Problem situations modeled by multiplication have an element that represents the scalar and an element that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
Handley, Bill – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This book is about playing with mathematics, teaching: (1) How to multiply and divide large numbers mentally; (2) Making addition and subtraction easy; (3) Tricks for understanding fractions and decimals; and (4) How to quickly check answers for each calculation. Described as a foolproof way to do multiplication, division, factoring estimating,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Subtraction, Numbers, Mathematics
Yeo, Dorian – 2003
This book explores how primary school children with dyslexia or dyspraxia and difficulty in math can learn math and provides practical support and detailed teaching suggestions. It considers cognitive features that underlie difficulty with mathematics generally or with specific aspects of mathematics. It outlines the ways in which children usually…
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Computation
Milne, William J. – Jones Brothers & Company, 1878
This textbook is designed to teach the principles of Arithmetical Science as far as they are involved in the elementary processes, and to secure a reasonable degree of accuracy and rapidity in expressing numbers and computing results. This work presents at first the idea of numbers connected with visual representations of objects; afterward, when…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Textbooks, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Mathematics