Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics; Editor: Kilpatrick, Jeremy; Editor: Findell, Bradford; Hardback; Book

Editor: Kilpatrick, Jeremy; Editor: Findell, Bradford
Hardback; Book; Index
250 pages
Published: January 2001
National Academy Press
ISBN: 0309069955

Adding it Up explores how students in pre-K through eighth grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years. The committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematical proficiency and describes how students develop this proficiency. With examples and illustrations,the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning. The committee discusses what is known from research about teaching for mathematics proficiency, focusing on the interactions between teachers andstudents around educational materials and how teachers develop proficiency in teaching mathematics.This text explores how children learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years.