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How to Teach Maths

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How to Teach Maths challenges traditional classroom methods by focusing on teaching mathematics through the lens of learners at the lower achievement quartile. Steve Chinn, drawing on decades of research and classroom experience, advocates for rethinking maths education to prioritise learners' needs. The book emphasises securing early conceptual understanding as a foundation for future success and uses clear diagrams and examples to address key issues such as the context of maths education today, common student difficulties, effective classroom communication, and tackling maths anxiety.

This accessible resource is ideal for maths teachers at all levels aiming to teach maths foundations developmentally to diverse learners and has the potential to transform maths teaching forever.
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This book is suited for maths teachers at all levels, teacher trainers, education professionals, and parents interested in foundational and developmental maths teaching approaches.

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How to Teach Maths challenges everything you thought you knew about how maths is taught in classrooms. Award-winning author Steve Chinn overviews many of the long-established methods, the beliefs and the culture of maths teaching with a critical eye.

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How to Teach Maths challenges everything you thought you knew about how maths is taught in classrooms. Award-winning author Steve Chinn casts a critical eye over many of the long-established methods and beliefs of maths teaching. Drawing from decades of classroom experience and research, he shows how mathematics teaching across the whole ability range can be radically improved by learning from the successful methods and principles used for the bottom quartile of achievers: the outliers. Chinn guides readers through re-adjusting the presentation of maths to learners, considering learners’ needs first, and explains the importance of securing early learning to create a conceptual foundation for later success.

This highly accessible book uses clear diagrams and examples to support maths teachers through many critical issues, including the following:

  • The context of maths education today
  • Topics that cause students the most difficulty
  • Effective communication in the mathematics classroom
  • Addressing maths anxiety

The perfect resource for maths teachers at all levels, this book is especially useful for those wanting to teach the foundations of mathematics in a developmental way to learners of all ages and abilities. It has the potential to change the way maths is taught forever.

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Bobby Seagull, school maths teacher and author, praises the book as essential for teacher training and maths departments, highlighting Steve Chinn's critical yet friendly approach rooted in vast research and classroom experience. It encourages reflection rather than prescribing rigid methods and is considered a new benchmark for educational resources on teaching maths.

Reviews acknowledge Chinn's unmatched insight into maths education and recommend the book not only for teachers and parents but for any educator seeking deeper understanding from the learner's perspective.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367862701

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 November 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 3 Tables, black and white; 85 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 93 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 158

About the Author

Steve Chinn is a Visiting Professor at the University of Derby. He is the author of The Trouble with Maths and More Trouble with Maths and the editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties. He has lectured and provided teacher training in over 30 countries. He founded, and ran for two decades, an award-winning school for learners with specific learning difficulties.

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