Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Making Meaning of Operations

By Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable, and Susan Jo Russell

Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K-8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry--into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.

In this module, participants examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The seminar begins with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.

Contact Info: Katherine Caruso (1-800-225-4276 x2543)

Project Website: Teaching to the Big Ideas (TBI)

Published by: Pearson Education Order Info

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ISBN: 0769000924
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