Teaching Children Mathematics, January 1st, 2004
Children's conceptual understanding, strategic competence, and procedural fluency in mathematics are highly influenced by experiences in the early grades. During these years, many important mathematics concepts, including measurement and rational-number sense, should be a part of children's informal investigations. By informally exploring the same concepts in a variety of ways--with concrete manipulatives, visual models, and abstract representations--first graders can connect their initial youthful notions to sophisticated mathematical thinking.
That children understand processes of measure...
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