Getting the Buggers to Add Up 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 3. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8264-8914-2 (ISBN)
Description
The new edition of this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. This edition includes a brand new chapter on 'strategies for teaching mathematics'. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching mathematics, this book will prove essential reading for maths teachers everywhere.
Reviews / Votes
"'It was a very interesting read with plenty of ideas for use in the mathematics classroom... This book is excellent value and of interest to the NQT as well as the experienced teacher. Get it, read it and put it into practice.' TES 'I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading and thinking about this book. I would make staff read it, saving all our INSET budget. It resonates so well with our Teaching and Learning and Behaviour policies that staff, for various reasons, can't, won't, don't always apply... It is very readable and should have a big impact on Maths teaching.' Catherine Sykes, Deputy Headteacher, Gawthorpe High School, Burnley."More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8914-2 (9780826489142)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Mike Ollerton | Peter Sykes
Getting the Buggers to Add Up
Book
05/2012
3rd Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€44.75
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Previous edition
Mike Ollerton
Getting the Buggers to Add Up
Book
03/2004
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€36.08
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Person
Mike Ollerton is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at St Martin's College, Lancaster. From September he will return to teaching - as Head of the Mathematics Department at a large secondary school.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. What is mathematics, why teach it and why learn it?; 3. Strategies for teaching mathematics; 4. Mathematical surprises; 5. People-math; 6. Using practical equipment in mathematics classrooms; 7. Mental mathematics; 8. Mathematics across the curriculum; 9. Teaching mathematics through 'real-life' contexts; 10. Mathematics and ICT; 11. Planning a scheme of work on pedagogic foundations; 12. Managing a mathematics classroom; 13. Developing students' thinking skills; 14. Teaching mathematics without a textbook; 15. Mathematics and... 16. Daring to be different; 17. And finally... everything is connected.