This revised and updated third edition offers a range of strategies,
activities and ideas to bring mathematics to life in the primary
classroom. Taking an innovative and playful approach to maths teaching,
this book promotes creativity as a key element of practice and offers
ideas to help your students develop knowledge, understanding and
enjoyment of the subject.
In the creative classroom, mathematics becomes a tool to build
confidence, develop problem solving skills and motivate children. The
fresh approaches explored in this book include a range of activities
such as storytelling, music and construction, elevating maths learning
beyond subject knowledge itself to enable students to see mathematics in
a new way.
Key chapters of this book explore:
- Learning maths outdoors - make more noise, make more mess or work on
a larger scale
- Everyday maths - making sense of the numbers, patterns, shapes and
measures children see around them
- Music and maths - the role of rhythm in learning, and music and
pattern in maths
Stimulating, accessible and underpinned by the latest research and
theory, this is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers
who wish to embed creative approaches to maths teaching in their
classroom.