Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 232 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Continuum studies in mathematics education. Continuum studies in mathematics education.
Subject:	Mathematics -- Study and teaching. Mathematics. Mathematics. Mathematics -- Study and teaching. Electronic books. Computer network resources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11203878

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Other authors / contributors:	Orton, Anthony.
ISBN:	184714456X 9781847144560 9780826477705 9781847144560 0826477704 0304700517 9780304700516 0304700525 9780304700523 1281294535 9781281294531 9786611294533 6611294538
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This highly illustrated book draws together the wide variety of studies in the learning of mathematics undertaken by the Pattern in Mathematics Research Group at the University of Leeds. Their purpose has been ' ... to provide structure and support to ... studies of children's perception, conception and use of pattern in learning mathematics'. Set up in 1992, they have embraced work across the whole curriculum, and through all the years of compulsory schooling. As each chapter of this book relates to a different study that was undertaken, the reader can dip in and select relevant material. At th.
Other form:	Print version: Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics. London ; New York : Continuum, 2005

Table of Contents:

About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Pattern in the Nursery; 2 Repeating Patterns in the Early Primary Years; 3 Primary School Children's Knowledge of Odd and Even Numbers; 4 Patterns in Processing and Learning Addition Facts; 5 Children's Strategies with Linear and Quadratic Sequences; 6 Teaching and Assessing Patterns in Number in the Primary Years; 7 Pattern and the Approach to Algebra; 8 Pictorial and Practical Contexts and the Perception of Pattern; 9 Children's Understanding of Graphic Relations; 10 Children's Perception of Pattern in Relation to Shape; 11 Pattern and Randomness.

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