Supporting Mathematical Thinking

Anne Watson, Jenny Houssart, Caroline Roaf

"Supporting Mathematical Thinking has been written to celebrate the enormous amount of work taking place in mainstream classrooms to promote inclusive approaches by mathematics specialists. I enjoyed reading this book and feel that this will be a very useful teaching resource to help in planning learning and finding creative ways of developing mathematical thinking among pupils." Support for Learning, February 2006 "Altogether I enjoyed this book much more than I had expected. Not only did it provide exhilaration, it seemed to sketch out an agenda for future work." Child Language Teaching and Therapy 22.2 (2006)

• Preface, Contributors, Introduction, 1 Is there a substitute for experience in learning?, 2 Low attaining students can think mathematically, 3 Numeracy recovery: a pilot scheme for early intervention with young children with numeracy difficulties, 4 What do children see? A study of children’s representations of numbers and operations, 5 Difficulties in extended counting, 6 John’s access to Pythagoras’ theorem: inclusion and entitlement in action, 7 Count me out: task refusal in primary mathematics, 8 Working through complexity: an experience of developing mathematical thinking through the use of Logo with low attaining pupils, 9 A study of progression in written calculation strategies for division, 10 Using graphics calculators with low attaining pupils, 11 Generalising arithmetic: an alternative to algebra (or things to do with a plastic bag), 12 Watching, listening and acting: a case study of learning support assistants in primary mathematics lessons, 13 Responsive questioning in a mixed-ability group, 14 Inclusion and entitlement: equality of opportunity and quality of curriculum provision, Index