Counting and Measuring: An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School

by Eileen Churchill

The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able to translate a concrete numerical problem into the symbolic language of calculation. For a child taught along these lines, how much easier, for example,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442639148
• ISBN13: 9781442639140
• Release Date: December 1961
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher