Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom: A Teachers Guide to Initial Lessons

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This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons that can be used to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging. IntroductionHow Children Learn Mathematics (and Why it Doesn't Happen!)Median: Finding What's in the MiddleRounding: The Mystery of 'Rounding up for 5'Skipping Multiplication (or at Least Through it.)Learning to Use DivisionFractions: What's it all About?Fractions: Adding Unlike Things? Impossible!Fractions: Dividing into Small PiecesDecimals: Operations Before RulesMeasurement: Make your Own RulerArea: Skipping Through the RowsVolume: It's Like Look at an Apartment House.....Mean: How Much…