This guidance report focuses on the teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to mathematics teaching. We have made recommendations where there are research findings that schools can use to make a significant difference to pupils' learning, and have focused on the questions that…

This paper presents tips, activities, resources, and games that parents can use to help their children become more proficient in math. Some helpful tips offered are: (1) Be positive; (2) Play family games; (3) Avoid stereotypes; (4) Choose gifts that develop problem solving skills; (5) Expand your children's horizons; (6) Buy or borrow library…

Math doesn't have to be mysterious--even though its language is strange and its customs confusing. Like any foreign country, it can become familiar through exposure and understanding. Six ways to take the mystery out of math are described. (MT)

Experiences and suggestions from a teacher using computers in a grade five-six classroom are given. (MNS)

Two alternatives are given to the decomposition and equal addition subtraction algorithms. (MK)

Some strategies for avoiding misconceptions about the greatest common factor and the least common multiple are presented. Several alternative methods for computing each are given. (MNS)

An activity for generating approximations of pi is described. (MK)

The author feels teaching division of fractions is worthwhile because it will help students understand other algorithms. (MK)

When the words "problem" and "answers" are used in connection with computational exercises, students think they are solving problems. Distinguishing between computational forms and problems is illustrated with a variety of topics. (MNS)

Diagnostic teaching is described and discussed. Different types of errors are explained and examples of errors and their possible diagnoses are given. (MK)

Ideas for teaching the concepts of percentage, recognition of patterns in percentages, percentage as a special ratio, ways of finding percentages, and fractional percentages are presented. (MNS)

Activities for selecting, naming, matching, recording, and reproducing fractions are presented, using a variety of illustrations and materials. (MNS)

Diagnosis of student errors in mathematics is discussed and 12 guidelines for effective diagnostic procedures are presented. (MK)

This series of seventeen modules was designed for use in teaching future elementary-school teachers methods for mathematics instruction. Each module is devoted to a general topic of importance to the elementary mathematics curriculum, and contains an overview, a statement of the module objective, a plan for preassessment, a list of several…

Questions about teaching rational numbers are discussed, dealing with when to teach the meaning of fractions and of decimals, when and how to teach computation with fractions and with decimals, and other issues. (MNS)