Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Anthony Orton.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Continuum,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Continuum studies in mathematics education.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Pattern in the Nursery; 2 Repeating Patterns in the Early Primary Years; 3 Primary School Children's Knowledge of Odd and Even Numbers; 4 Patterns in Processing and Learning Addition Facts; 5 Children's Strategies with Linear and Quadratic Sequences; 6 Teaching and Assessing Patterns in Number in the Primary Years; 7 Pattern and the Approach to Algebra; 8 Pictorial and Practical Contexts and the Perception of Pattern; 9 Children's Understanding of Graphic Relations; 10 Children's Perception of Pattern in Relation to Shape; 11 Pattern and Randomness.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This highly illustrated book draws together the wide variety of studies in the learning of mathematics undertaken by the Pattern in Mathematics Research Group at the University of Leeds. Their purpose has been ' ... to provide structure and support to ... studies of children's perception, conception and use of pattern in learning mathematics'. Set up in 1992, they have embraced work across the whole curriculum, and through all the years of compulsory schooling. As each chapter of this book relates to a different study that was undertaken, the reader can dip in and select relevant material. At th.
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9781847144560
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Title
Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics.