ISBN : 9782924651339
Year of publication : 2019
Nombre de pages : 286
Langue : #!trpst#trp-gettext data-trpgettextoriginal=5211#!trpAnglais#French#!trpst#/trp-gettext#!trpAnglais#
This book is the result of a five-year collaboration among researchers, teachers, educational consultants, and special education teachers. It offers an approach that fosters the development of mathematical reasoning through the solving of problems with additive structures. This structure represents one of the key mathematical concepts to be developed during a student’s early school years. This book contains 33 math activities to be carried out in the classroom and 63 problems and puzzles to analyze, represent, and solve.
In addition to supporting teachers in planning effective mathematics instruction, this book can also help future teachers explore problem-solving through a new approach: the analysis and representation of mathematical relationships. Finally, parents will find this book useful in better supporting their children with problem-solving.
Annie Savard holds a bachelor's degree in preschool and elementary education, a master's degree in science didactics and a doctorate in mathematics didactics. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. With some fifteen years' experience in primary school teaching, she is also an international educational consultant. In 2019, she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor by Romania's Universitatea Ovidius din Constanta. In addition to the development of mathematical thinking, her research interests concern the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary and secondary schools from a citizen's point of view. Her research program focuses in particular on financial numeracy.
Claudine Gervais holds a bachelor's degree in preschool and elementary education. She taught all levels of primary school for 15 years before becoming an elementary school math consultant in 2007, at the Centre de services scolaires des Grandes-Seigneuries. Aware of teachers' need for tools to support students in the analysis of written problems, and given the success of the balanced approach to problems with additive structure, it was without hesitation that she pursued her collaboration with researchers Savard and Polotskaia to develop, test and publish these new activities supporting the development of students' multiplicative thinking.
Elena Polotskaia holds a bachelor's degree in secondary mathematics education, which she complemented with a master's degree and doctorate in mathematics didactics. She has taught mathematics at secondary level and worked as a remedial teacher, consulting with students in difficulty at all levels of primary and secondary education. She is currently a professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, a trainer of future teachers and a researcher in mathematics didactics. She is interested in the development of mathematical thinking in children and the related teaching difficulties.
