Math Power (eBook)

How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't

Patricia Clark Kenschaft (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
336 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
9780486782157 (ISBN)

Infos

Critically acclaimed and commercially successful, this resource is packed with useful information and instruction. Features proven teaching techniques, games, and more. Suitable for parents of children from preschool to age 10. 2006 edition.

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Any child can overcome the disadvantages of mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. Math Power offers easy-to-follow and concrete strategies for teaching math concepts. These lively techniques — including games, questions, conversations, and specific math activities — are suitable for children from preschool to age 10.Author Patricia Clark Kenschaft maintains that rote learning and standardized testing weaken children's natural love of learning, and she shows how parents can effectively supplement students' math education. Her critically acclaimed guide is particularly valuable to homeschoolers, offering all parents the tools they need to help children achieve academic and real-world success."e;Should be required reading for all parents of elementary schoolchildren."e; — Max A. Sobel, former President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics"e;I hope many parents will read this valuable book. It shows how parents can set positive switches in their kids that will help them enjoy mathematics both in school and out."e; — Henry Pollack, former President, Mathematical Association of AmericaPatricia Clark Kenschaft is professor emerita of mathematics at Montclair State University, where she was a professor of mathematics for thirty-two years. The mother of two grown children, Pat Kenschaft has taught mathematics to hundreds of elementary school children. She is the author or coauthor of five college mathematics textbooks, as well as the author of more than eighty published articles and the book Change Is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.1.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Books on Mathematics
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
• Schlagworte: childrens introduction to math • confidence with math • easy to read • Education • Elementary School Math • Encouragement • Helping kids with math • homeschooling math • improving math skills • learning math • learning math, math strategies, books on math, supplemental math, learn math at home, math activity book, math for kids, math games, math made easy, math education, working with numbers, improving math skills, math testing, confidence with math, easy to read, education • learn math at home • math activity book • MATH ANXIETY • Math education • Math for kids • math games • Math homeschooling • math made easy • math strategies • math study • math testing • supplemental math • teaching math concepts • working with numbers
• ISBN-13: 9780486782157 / 9780486782157