Authors: Terezhina Nunes
ISBN-13: 9781861563408, ISBN-10: 186156340X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book discusses ways to teach deaf children about the four arithmetic operations through spatial representation in problem solving. Examples for the teaching of fractions and graphs are also included. These visual representations are useful to support the children's understanding of mathematical concepts and to promote peer collaboration. The teaching program was tested with deaf children in six schools with excellent results: the children in the project made significantly more progress in one school year than expected for either deaf and hearing children over the same time.
Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Counting and its creative uses | 22 |
Ch. 3 | Additive reasoning : connecting addition and subtraction | 50 |
Ch. 4 | Reading and writing numbers | 85 |
Ch. 5 | Multiplicative reasoning connecting multiplication, division and many other mathematical ideas | 112 |
Ch. 6 | Teaching mathematics to deaf children : how the story began and the happy ending | 149 |