Children's Mathematics, Second Edition: Cognitively Guided I

ISBN: 0325052875

Author: Carpenter, Thomas P

Condition: new

The bestselling first edition of Childrens Mathematics helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand childrens intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. The highly anticipated Second Edition provides new insights about Cognitively Guided Instruction based on the authors research and experience in CGI classrooms over the last 15 years. Highlights include: how children solve problems using their intuitive understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division the development of childrens mathematical thinking throughout the primary grades instructional practices that promote childrens active engagement in mathematics connections between childrens strategies and powerful mathematical conceptsA new expanded collection of over 90 online video episodes illustrating childrens mathematical thinking, interactions between students and teachers, and classroom instruction that builds on childrens mathematical thinking.Together, the Second Edition and videos provide a detailed research-based account of the development of childrens mathematical thinking and problem solving, and how teachers can promote this development in ways that honor childrens thinking.Check out all the Cognitively Guided Instruction books here: Heinemann.com/CGImath