How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry about New vs. Old Math

By Catheryne Draper

Book Overview

How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math provides a roadmap to understanding what the symbols for math operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) really mean, what the clues are to interpret these symbols, and a kind of short story of how they evolved over time. to decipher the enigmatic squiggles of those verbs called operations.
How the Math Gets Done: Why Parents Don't Need to Worry About New vs. Old Math
compares the old and the new methods for math procedures from a "Big Idea" perspective by organizing the information in four sections: Definition, Organization, Relationships and Patterns, and Connections. Each section contains three chapters that clarify the issues related to each "Big Idea" section. The Conclusion offers parents even more hints and guidelines to help their child through this "math country" of procedures for calculating in math.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475834225
• ISBN13: 9781475834222
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"