Mathematics for Children with Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties

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Routledge, Dec 19, 2013 - Education - 116 pages

The book will covers a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning and demonstrates how mathematics can be related to personal and social development, communication and thinking skills. Written with the non-specialist in mind and including plenty of practical examples, it will make useful reading for teachers in mainstream and special schools, and learning support assistants.

Early years practitioners and teachers in training may find the book useful for its descriptions of how children acquire their foundation of early mathematics and numeracy skills.

 

Contents

Introduction
Part One Mathematics in daily life
The significance of mathematics
How mathematical learning begins
The strands of early mathematical learning
Part Two The tools of learning
Tools working together
Sensation the entry level of mathematics
Part Three The processes of learning phases of cognition
Cognition unfolding phases and processes of learning
Sensory motor learning
Becoming aware of thinking and understanding about things
Working on real things the beginnings of numeracy
Part Four The mathematics curriculum
The mathematics curriculum for special pupils
Reference

Perception making sense of sensations
Attention choosing your material
Number sense

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