How the Brain Learns Mathematics

To reach all your math students, use your brain & mdash;and theirs, too!. This updated bestseller takes readers to the next level with new brain-friendly strategies backed by the latest research and even more ways to seamlessly incorporate what you learn about your students & rsquo; developing minds into your math classroom. Discover the cognitive mechanisms for learning math, explore factors that contribute to learning difficulties, and follow a four-step teaching model that relates classroom experience to ...

About the Author ; Introduction ; Everyone Can Do Mathematics ; Why is Learning Mathematics So Hard? ; Response From Mathematics Educators ; About This Book ; Questions This Book Will Answer>; Chapter Contents ; Other Helpful Tools ; Assessing Your Current Knowledge of How We Learn Mathematics ; What's Coming? ; 1. Developing Number Sense ; Babies Can Count ; What Is Number Sense? ; Animals Also Have Number Sense ; Why Do We Have Number Sense? ; Piaget and Number Sense ; Learning to Count ; Subitizing ; Counting ; How Language Affects Counting ; The Mental Number Line ; Expanded Notions of Number Sense ; Can We Teach Number Sense? ; Quantities to Words to Symbols ; Gardner' s Logical/Mathematical Intelligence ; What' s Coming? ; Reflections on Chapter 1 ; 2. Learning to Calculate ; Development of Conceptual Structures ; Structures in Four-Year-Olds ; Structures in