Elementary Mathematics Is Anything but Elementary: Content and Methods From A Developmental Perspective

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Cengage Learning, Dec 19, 2008 - Education - 544 pages
Inspiring, empowering, and preparing preservice teachers for today’'s classroom, ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS IS ANYTHING BUT ELEMENTARY: CONTENT AND METHODS FROM A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE is a comprehensive program that delivers both a content and a methods text. Serving as a professional development guide for both pre-service and in-service teachers, this text’'s integrated coverage helps dissolve the line between content and methods—and consequently bolsters teachers’' confidence in their delivery of math instruction. A strong emphasis on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics five core standards provides key information common to most state curricula relative to NCTM standards for pre-K through sixth grade. In addition, text content is based on thorough elementary mathematical scope and sequences that have been shown to be an effective means for guiding the delivery of curriculum and instruction.
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About the author (2008)

Damon Bahr is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. He previously served as an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Utah Valley State College. Dr. Bahr is active in the NCTM and the Utah Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, where he was president in 2002. He has an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instructional Science (Evaluation, Measurement, and Research Emphasis), an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Utah State University, and a B.S. in Elementary Education (Mathematics Minor) from Brigham Young University. Lisa Ann de Garcia currently teaches math methods courses in the Teacher Education department at Brigham Young University. She comes from San Diego Unified School District where she was an elementary bilingual classroom teacher as well as a math coach/staff developer. She is an active member of both NCTM and NCSM as well as Utah Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.

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