Teaching Number Sense, Grade 1

Teaching Number Sense, Grade 1 By Chris Confer
2005 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0941355594 | PDF | 2 MB
This title is part of a three-book Teaching Number Sense series that focuses on the critical role that number sense plays in developing mathematical understanding. Number sense encompasses a wide range of abilities, including being able to make reasonable estimates and to think and reason flexibly. These lessons help students develop good number intuition and the ability to see numbers as tools, not barriers. By encouraging young children to reason their way to solutions, teachers help students form a solid foundation upon which all of their later mathematical understanding will be built. Lessons in this book are organized in an accessible, easy-to-read format that includes an overview, a materials list, the lesson duration, step-by-step teaching directions, and vignettes of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom. Each lesson concludes with a list of assessment questions to help guide teacher observations. In this book, children build their understanding of counting, number relationships, and landmark numbers. They also develop computation strategies, further their understanding of composing and decomposing numbers, and develop a beginning sense of place value.